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Digital Image Collections Guide

Last updated December 2013
Scott Spicer
Media Outreach and Learning Spaces Librarian
University of Minnesota Libraries - Twin Cities
spic0016@umn.edu 

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Digital Image Collections Guide

Below is a curated bibliography of quality digital image collections spanning ~85 subjects, including ~950 digital collections, that have been culled primarily from the LibGuides Community, and several subject areas have been further refined by 20 subject liaison librarians at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.  To browse by 8 general discipline areas see: https://www.lib.umn.edu/media/imageguide (non-editable).  The goal of the site is to share this work with the visual resources community.  

 

Performing Arts

• 19th Century Actors Photographs
  610 cartes-de-visite studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s


• Arenapal.com
  Commercial UK image service featuring mostly paid, but several free images of performing arts.


• Bunraku Collection
  Photographs of live bunraku theater performances from the second half of the 20th century.


• Federal Theatre Project (FTP) Materials Collection
  Thousands of poster, costume, and set images from the Federal Theatre Project (a division of the Works Progress Administration).


• Global Performing Arts Database
  Includes authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers.


• J. Willis Sayre Photographs
  9,856 images collected by drama critic and theater promoter J. Willis Sayre; autographed portraits of actors, vaudeville performers, movie stills, singers, dancers, musicians, comedians and acrobats.


• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
  Provides access to images highlighting several collections held by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LCMA).

 

• Let's go to the Circus! (Wisconsin Historical Society)
  Historical circus photo images from clowns to parades, including Ringling Bros.


• Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History
  Visual chronicle of the artistic productions of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in the years 1977-1994. The collection presents 1,800 images documenting 195 performances during 17 seasons.


• NYPL: Digital Gallery - Explore Arts & Literature
  Several dance, theatre and film collections.


• Performing Arts Encyclopedia (Library of Congress)
  Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress. Includes images from several genres of performing arts including music, theater, and dance.


• Prior and Norris Troupe Photographs
  230 photographs and ephemera relating to the career of Pat Prior and Effie Norris documenting their life on the road while performing on the American vaudeville circuits around the turn of the century, 1886-1915.


• Scene Design Collections (UMN Performing Arts Archives)
  The scenery collection in the University of Minnesota's Performing Arts Archives is composed of three parts: the Twin City Scenic Company collection (PA43), the Great Western Stage Equipment Company Collection(PA44), and the Holak collection(PA49).


• The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
  Over 13,000 images of items, including stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions.

 

 

• Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century (Library of Congress)
  7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and talent circulars for some 4,546 performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit (Library of Congress American Memories Project).


• Wharton Studio (Chadwyck Collection)
  This collection includes 180 sepia photos, digitized from the Ithaca Archives, of movie sets and some actors from the Wharton Studios (Ithaca, NY) in the 1920's. Photos taken by Ithaca faculty member, Archelaus “Chad” Chadwyck.

 

Dance

• Arenapal.com
  Commercial UK image service featuring mostly paid, but several free images of performing arts.


• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.


• Ballerina Photos
  These photos come from various ballet books, magazines, programmes, press releases, my own photo collection or are sent by the photographers. They are strictly for private viewing purposes only and are copyrighted by their respective owners.


• Bridgeman Art Library  
  Source of fine art images from over eight thousand collections and twenty nine thousand artists from museums, galleries and artists throughout the world. Offers basic, advanced and inspirational searches along with reproduction rights requirements.


• British Museum Images
  The British Museum, one of the oldest, largest and most famous museums in the world, holds objects and artworks dating from the 7th millennium BC to the present day, and covers all major world cultures. Images are licensed and may be purchased.


• Cia Fornaroli Collection
  Hundreds of images from the Cia Fornaroli Collection at The New York Public Library illustrate the rich history of Italian dance.


• Claire Holt Collection of Indonesian Dance and Related Arts
  From The New York Public Library. Thousands of photographs of Indonesian costumes, theatrical performances, and dance movements in the 1930s and later.


• The Dance; Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D.
  It is hoped that this work may be of some use illustrating the costume, position and accessories of the dance in various periods.


• Dance In Photographs and Prints; Dance Images in the New York Public Library Digital Collection
  Collections of historical dance photographs feature specific dancers from late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photos range from publicity stills to professional photographers' vintage prints. Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Irene and Vernon Castle & more.


• Flickr Dance
  Includes thousands of Flickr images related to a search for dance images.


• Library of Contress: Theater & Dance
  Browse Library of Congress collections of historical texts, images and videos related to dance, or search collections by names or topic words.


• MoMA
  Search collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art for images of dance and dancers depicted in drawings, paintings and photographs.


• New York Public Library Digital Gallery, Jerome Robbins Dance Division
  The largest and most comprehensive archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance. Its online collection offers close to 5,000 images, from Anna Pavlova and Isadora Duncan programs to slides of the Joffrey Ballet and photos of Merce Cunningham. See also Dance in Photographs and Prints.

Costume Design

• See also Clothing


• 19th Century Actors Photographs
  The 19th Century Actors and Theater Photographs database consists of over 600 photographs including cartes-de-visite and cabinet card studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s.


• British Library Online Gallery
  Online gallery of virtual books and online exhibitions with objects from the British Library Collections.
   
• Canadian Mail Order Catalogues
  This site provides an opportunity to delve into catalogues from a number of different stores, both English and French, from the 1880s to the 1970s.


• The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs 1870-1982
  The site includes approximately 400 images from publicity photographs featuring regional production companies.

 

• Conde Nast Store
  Covers, photos, and illustrations from Vanity Fair, GQ, House & Garden, Vogue Mademoiselle, and other Conde Nast magazines.


• Costume Institute (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
  Online Sources for Historical and Fantasy costumes. Search sample images of the a collection, consisting of more than 30,000 costumes and accessories spanning five continents and as many centuries.


• The Costume Page
  Over 1,000 links about costume and costuming-related links.


• Costume Site
  Personal costume design web page with links to other styles.


• The Costumer's Manifesto
  The Costumer's Manifesto - www.costumes.org by Tara Maginnis, Ph.D. Site for Costume Information & Images


• Daphne Dare Collection
  Includes costume and scene designs from more than fifty productions by British designer Daphne Dare (1929-2000).

 

• Digital Dress: Historic Costume Collection
  The personal library of costume and costuming-related links created by Julia Zetterberg Sardo, 1995-2007


• Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories - Victoria and Albert Museum
  The collection covers fashionable dress from the 17th century to the present day, with the emphasis on progressive and influential designs from the major fashion centres of Europe. The V&A collections also include accessories such as jewellery, gloves and handbags.


• Fashion Plate Collection from the University of Washington
  Illustrations from the leading French, British, American, and other continental fashion journals of the 19th century and early 20th century. These images reflect the metamorphosis of women's fashion from the 1920s through the 1970s from the Gimbel Art and Design Library


• Garren Collection of Historic Dress
  Over 40,000 images from Historic collections in the Detroit Area, including the Henry Ford Costume Collection.


• Getty Images
  Search several picture and film archives collections, including the Hulton Picture Archive, National Geographic, Time Life, Bridgeman Art Library.


• Global Performing Arts Database
  GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database) records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.


• J. Willis Sayre Photographs
  9856 images of theatrical and vaudeville performers.


• Library of Congress: American Memory Project
  American Memory Project from the Library of Congress is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections


• Life Magazine Photo Archive
  Includes a large selection of photos appearing in Life magazine.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection: Costume Institute
  Over 30,000 images of costumes on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website.


• Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design
  Over 5000 items from more than 150 productions in England and the United States.


• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Contains images of objects from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

• New York Times Syndicate
  Contains photos and graphics from the New York Times.

• NYPL Digital Gallery
  Provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

• Prior and Norris Troupe Photographs
  The collection includes photographs and ephemera relating to the career of Pat Prior and Effie Norris and the history of vaudeville. This includes images of friends and colleagues of Prior and Norris, identified and unidentified vaudeville performers of the late 1800s and early 1900, publicity postcards, and vaudeville stage productions, the most significant being Fanchon and Marco.


• Ringling Collection
  Cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of 19th century American and British actors and actresses.


• Smithsonian Photography Initiative
  Online database of photographs dating from the 1850s to the present. Subjects cover the arts and literature, culture and society, nature and science, industry and technology, history and geography. Includes both professional photos and amateur snapshots. [Update: Integrated into Smithsonian Archives Image Search - 12/13]
   
• Time & Life Pictures
  Images by well-known photojournalists documenting past and present political and cultural events, as well as celebrities and the American experience. Also includes commercial and archival footage.

• Timeline of Costume History
  Images of fashion by decades at the University of Virginia Department of Drama


• A Tonic to the Imagination
  Costume designs for stage and screen by B.J. Simmons & Co., 1889-1959

• USC Digital Library
  Digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, as well as audio and video recordings [emphasizing] materials related to Los Angeles and the Southern California and the Pacific Rim.


• VADS. The online resource for visual arts.
  Visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images from institutional sources contributed for use in learning, teaching and research. Includes art, design, architecture, decorative art, fashion. UK-based.


• Victoria & Albert Museum Access to Images
  earch the Collections is a working database that we are building continuously. You can search over a million records. Some records have minimal information; others are very detailed. Some have high quality photographs; some have more basic images; others have yet to be photographed.

Religious Studies

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

• Art and the Bible
  Selections of such biblical art from notable artists, including many highlights from the history of art.


• Art in the Christian Tradition
  Vanderbilt University's collection of historic an contemporary religious art and symbolism.  A sophisticated tool employing the ICONCLASS hierarchy.

• EIKON: Image Database for Biblical Studies  
  Images for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies from Yale Divinity School.


• Iconclass, religion and magic section
  A multilingual classification system for cultural content, includes many examples of religious iconography.


• The Jewish Museum
  Over 2000 images from the Jewish Museum's collection of art and Jewish culture of different media, including fine arts, Judaica, and broadcast media.

• World Images - Archaeological Sites and Modern Cities
  The portfolios in this section bring together materials from specific sites, including ancient archaeological sites and modern cities.

Jewish Studies

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

• Imagine: the Israel Mueseum Searchable Collections Database
  Highlights of the Archaeology, Fine Arts, Jewish Art and Life collections.

• Judaica Division Images Collections at Harvard University
  The Judaica Division Images Collections offer insight into virtually all facets of Jewish life in Israel.
   


• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Photo Archive
  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Photo Archive contains over 25,000 photos (and other media objects) related to the Holocaust.


• University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies (CHGS) Artistic Responses
  The artwork on this [CHGS] website represents a variety of artistic responses to the Holocaust. There is work done as a direct response, created by the victims. Much of this art was created in the camps and ghettos, or recreated immediately after the war in displaced persons camps due to the loss of the originals.

Arts

Art & Art History

• See also Architecture

• accessCeramics
  accessCeramics is a growing collection of images of contemporary ceramics by recognized artists. It is designed for use by artists, arts educators, scholars and the general public, and is intended to fill a void in contemporary ceramics digital image collections on the web.
   
• American Craft Council (ACC) Library Digital Collections
  The ACC Library Digital Collections is an open-access online compendium containing thousands of unique images, documents and media detailing the history of contemporary craft in America. Included in the collections are ACC newsletters and photographs that provide firsthand documentation on major national craft exhibitions and conferences, as well as objects made by some of the 20^th century’s leading craft artists. Full-text issues of the first twenty-five years of Craft Horizons, the preeminent mid-century journal on craft, can also be freely accessed through the database.   


• Ad Access
  The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.


• American Memory: Photographs, Prints, & Drawings (Library of Congress)
  American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

• Architecture in the Classical Tradition (Queens University, Canada) - Image Search
  Personal collection by Pierre du Prey, Professor & Director of the Architecture in the Classical Tradition project at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

• Archives of American Art Image search
  The image gallery contains over 8,000 photographs, letters, sketches, diaries, and other documents which have been scanned and individually described.

• Artchive
  Artchive  The Artchive is a biographical dictionary, bibliography and image database for over 200 of the most famous artists. It also provides several illustrated essays on such broad topics as abstract expressionism or women artists. Some images are host

• ArtCyclopedia
  Search over 6000 artists to find their works in museum collections or browse by movement, medium, subject, or nationality.

• Artefacts Canada
  The Artefacts Canada database contains close to 4 million object records and approximately 800,000 images from Canadian museums.


• Art Full Text
  Art Full Text, produced by The HW Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. There is full-text coverage for selected periodicals. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.


• Art Images for College Teaching
  Art and architecture images arranged by time period to parallel art history textbook organization.


• Art Institute of Chicago
  Online collections, which offer access to over 45,000 works and basic information about works of art from all areas of our encyclopedic collection.

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

• Asian Art Museum, San Franciso, CA
  The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. But we are more than just an art museum—we are your ticket to Asia. Here, you can travel through 6,000 years of history, trek across seven major regions, and sample the cultures of numerous countries.

• Basel Mission Picture Archive
  Photographs taken at the intersection of European, African, and Asian cultures from 1850 to 1950

• Beazley Archive (Oxford University; Greek and Roman art)
  The art of ancient Greece and Rome, and its collection and reception since antiquity.

• Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (OSU)
  The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum's (Ohio State Univ.) primary mission is to develop a comprehensive research collection documenting American printed cartoon art, to organize the materials, and to provide access to these resources. The scope of the collection includes:editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, sports cartoons, magazine cartoons. To search select "Art Database" or "Cartoon Image Database" links.


• Bridgeman Art Library  
  Source of fine art images from over eight thousand collections and twenty nine thousand artists from museums, galleries and artists throughout the world. Offers basic, advanced and inspirational searches along with reproduction rights requirements.

• British Cartoon Archive
  British Cartoon Archive is a research center and library of British cartooning located in in the Templeman Library at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Its web site features a catalog with images of over 130,000 cartoons published in the British press, as well as information about the archive, announcements of special events, featured cartoons and cartoonists, teaching aids, and other useful material. The primary draw is the catalog database of images (back to the 1790s), which extends beyond the Archives' own physical collection (back to 1904). Detailed cataloging records. Searching by keyword and date.


• British Museum, London
  Features digital images of around objects from the huge range of periods and cultures represented in the British Museum.


• CAMIO
  OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online offers art images that are rights-cleared for educational use. CAMIO is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms. Includes about 95,000 art images—photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture—plus audio, video and mixed media. CAMIO is licensed for use by students, faculty, and researchers at subscribing institutions. Works of art may be used for educational and research purposes during the term of the subscription, if they are properly credited. Images may not be published or otherwise distributed.


• Canadian Art Database (York University)
  The Canadian Art Database Project currently holds 54,000+ images and 600+ video and audio clips by 600+ artists and designers; and 2,400+ texts by 200+ writers and curators.


• Carol Gerten's Fine Art Image Site  
  Carol Gerten's Fine Art Image Site is searchable by artist, nationality or time period.


• Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, British Library
  Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in the British Library, London.


• Christian Iconography
  Learn how to identify the saints in medieval and renaissance art.


• Christie's Images
  Christie's Images is a unique photo archive of fine and decorative art images created by the greatest artists from all cultures and civilisations.


• Corbis
  Corbis is a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals, providing a comprehensive selection of photography, illustration, footage, typefaces and rights clearance services.


• Courtauld Institute of Art
  Images ("40,000 high quality digital images of paintings, drawings, architecture and sculpture from the Courtauld Gallery and Conway Library are available for searching, rights clearance and download on this site."


• Corning Museum of Glass
  Includes digital images of several of the Corning Museum of Glass collections showcasing more than 3,500 years of glass work.


• Cybermuse
  National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography


• Digital Content Library (DCL - CLA)
  "The Digital Content Library (DCL) is a combined resource of the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) and the College of Design (CDes). Together, there are almost 200,000 learning objects from many different disciplines in image, video, and audio formats. These objects come from a variety of sources including purchased and licensed, donations, and copystand photography."


• Domestic Interiors Database
  Representations of domestic interiors from the Renaissance to the 20th century, showing room layout, furnishings, architecture, and domestic design.


• Enluminures
  80,000 images from French manuscript illumination, arranged by subject, and also searchable.


• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprised of the de Young in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in San Francisco


• Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield Collections Database
  Provides access to information and images of over 60,000 objects held in the collections of Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Historic Deerfield, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art and the University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
   
• Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.
  Images of objects from the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries.
   
• Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  Contains images of many of the artworks held and displayed by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.
   
• Getty Research Institute Special Collections
  Special Collections in the Getty Research Library, including the art of David Tudor, designs by El Lissitzky, and prints after Poussin.


• Google Art Project
  High-resolution images of selected works from 16 museums around the world, including Gemaldegalerie, Berlin; National Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Versailles; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Uffizi, Florence; Museum Kampa, Prague; and more... Gallery and street views, Explore the Museum feature, videos


• Guggenheim Museum, New York
  This online collection contains selected classic works and more recent acquisitions from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.


• The Harrison Studio
  Images from various projects of Newton and Helen Harrison, leading pioneers of the echo-art movement.


• IDP International Dunhuang Project
  More than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings and artifacts from Dunhaung and other Silk Road sites of the first millennium AD.


• Jame J. Ross Archive of African Images, 1590-1920
  James J. Ross Archive of African Images 1590-1920 is a database of approximately 5,000 pictures of African art published before 1921.


• Lessing Photo Archive
  Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive is an extensive image library featuring over 40.000 high resolution images from over 500 museums and many other collections. Founded and mostly photographed by Erich Lessing, the collection covers a wide range of subjects: Fine Arts, Religion, History, Music, Archaeology, Mythology, Architecture, Landscapes, Historical Portraits and Reportage.


• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
  Provides access to images highlighting several collections held by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LCMA).


• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  Provides access to images held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including highlights from each of the curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and the entire Department of American Painting and Sculpture.


• Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth


• Musée du Louvre


• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Contains images of objects from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.


• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX


• Museum of Modern Art, New York
  The online collection of the Museum of Modern Art includes artists and objects from the departments of Architecture and Design, Drawings, Painting and Sculpture, Prints and Illustrated Books, and Film and Media.


• Museum of Online Museums (MoOM)
  This site provides "links to online collections and exhibits covering a vast array of interests and obsessions." Includes links to museums ("most of these sites will have multiple exhibits"), a "permanent collection" of links to exhibits of particular interest to design and advertising, and links to "an eclectic and ever-changing list of interesting ... collections and galleries." From a design and advertising company.


• Napoleonic Satires


• National Gallery of Art, London, UK


• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  Contains text and/or data on all of the objects in the National Gallery's collection, and images of more than 5600 objects.


• National Portrait Gallery, London, England


• New York Public Library's Arts and Literatures Digital Gallery
  Images of art and cultural objects from the New York Public Library, including dance, design, furniture, motion pictures, music, ornament, performance, spectacle, and theatre.


• Philadelphia Museum of Art


• National Museum of Women in the Arts
  Digital images of some of the permanent collection. This collection is comprised of more than 3,000 works providing a comprehensive survey of art by women from the 16th century to the present.


• Prints and Photographs (P&P) Online Catalog
  (Library of Congress, search 1 collection or all 30)


• Project Perseus
  Over 30,000 images from clasical art and archaeology


• Reed College Artist's Book Collection


• RMN (French Art Museum)
  AAA photos, digitized manuscripts, etc from this Smithsonian collection


• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)


• Scholars Resource
  Scholars Resource offers complementary image collections from Saskia, Davis, Hartill, Archivision and Bridgeman Art Library, from more than 200 international museums and more than 85,000 images from every period in art history.


• Shakespeare Illustrated (Emory University)


• Smithsonian American Art Museum
  American art, craft, and design from all regions, traditions, and cultures. Searchable and browsable by artist, work type, and subject.


• Tate Collection, Britain
  An online database of works in the Tate Collection, plus an illustrated glossary.


• Uffizi Gallery, Florence
  
   
• University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies (CHGS) Artistic Responses
  The artwork on this [CHGS] website represents a variety of artistic responses to the Holocaust. There is work done as a direct response, created by the victims. Much of this art was created in the camps and ghettos, or recreated immediately after the war in displaced persons camps due to the loss of the originals.


• University of Washington Digital Collections
  Digital images of several of the extensive holdings of the University of Washington Special Collections. Subject matter ranges from Art and Architecture to Natural Sciences, mostly related to the Northwest region.


• VADS. The online resource for visual arts.
  Visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images from institutional sources contributed for use in learning, teaching and research. Includes art, design, architecture, decorative art, fashion. UK-based.


• Victoria and Albert Museum
  Search for over 1,000,000 works from the V&A's collections, including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture and textiles.


• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts


• The Virtual Museum of Canada
  The image gallery contains thousands of digital reproductions of works of art held by Canada's museums.


• Visual collections: images of art, history and culture
  Includes Cartography, Fine Arts, Architecture, Photography, and other image. Digital image collections from Museums, Universities and private collections throughout the world - by Cartography Associates (David Rumsey)


• Web Gallery of Art
  Web Gallery of Art The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries started in 1996


• Wikimedia Commons
  Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content including images, sound and video clips.


• Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database
  The Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database is a new online resource for the study of craft traditions, manufacturing, state and local history, and material culture. This searchable archive brings together examples of furniture, ceramics, textiles, and other 19th and early 20th century material culture artifacts from the collections of museums and historic sites across Wisconsin
• Worcester Art Museum
  The Worcester Art Museum is acclaimed for the quality of its collections. European and North American painting, prints, photographs and drawings; Asian art, Greek and Roman sculpture and mosaics and Contemporary art. The collection is organized geographically except for Western prints, drawings and all photographs which are organized by medium and Contemporary Art which is defined as the international art of the past ten years in all media. Browse works fine on the website, Early American Paintings search not working properly.


• WorldImages
  Over 80,000 images from the the California State University IMAGE Project.
• World Images - Archaeological Sites and Modern Cities
• World Images - The Arts: Dance, Music, Theater & Visual Arts  
• World Images - Daily Life and Material Culture
• World Images - The Americas  
• World Images - Europe
• World Images - Asia  
• World Images - The Middle East
• World Images - Africa
    
• Yale University Art Gallery
  Works from the Gallery, including paintings, decorative arts, arms and armor, and more. Searchable by department, classification, artist, etc.

 

Photography

 

• AP Images
  AP Images is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery, with a 50 million-image print and negative archive. As an essential source of photographs and graphics for professional image buyers, AP Images strives to meet the needs of today's global customer through superior image quality, selection and service.

 

 

 

• Art Institute of Chicago - Photography
  Includes over 5,000 photographic images from the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago.

 

 

 

• Art of the Photogravure
  Celebrating the beauty and history of the photogravure process and the important role it has played in the evolution of fine art photography. Includes a database search of images from many famous photographers work with the photogravure process.

 

 

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

 

 

 

• Basel Mission Picture Archive
  Photographs taken at the intersection of European, African, and Asian cultures from 1850 to 1950

 

 

 

• Can Stock Photo
  Can Stock Photo includes over 20 million professional photos representative of a diverse range of subjects. Pricing options for reproduction include both select freely available and for-fee licensing options.

 

 

 

• Center for Creative Photography Digital Collections (University of AZ)
  Images from the Center for Creative Photography (Univ. of Arizona). This online collection contains images from the archives of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, and other great twentieth-century photographers.

 

 

 

• The Daguerreian Society Image Search
  Includes a database and gallery collection browse functionality for over 1,000 images of daguerreottypes, the first successful commercial photographic process produced on silver plated copper or brass plates.

 

 

 

• Flickr Commons
  Search and use hundreds of images with "no known copyright restrictions." A joint venture of Flickr and the Library of Congress, Flickr Commons was designed to increase access to publicly-held photography collections.

 

 

 

• Fotosearch.com
  Fotosearch Stock Photography allows users to search from more than 30 million photographs, images, prints, and stock video clips. The database contains images from over 120 stock images vendors all around the world.

 

 

 

• George Eastman House: Collections Online
  Thumbnail images of photographs, daguerreotypes, lantern slides arranged by photographer and collection from the vast holdings of the George Eastman House

 

 

 

• Getty Images
  Search several picture and film archives collections, including the Hulton Picture Archive, National Geographic, Time Life, Bridgeman Art Library.

 

 

• GoGraph.com
  "GoGraph offers flexible royalty free stock photography, vectors, illustrations, graphics, and stock footage at low prices. Purchase and download stock images immediately. For over 10 years we have helped art directors, graphic designers, corporate advertisers, and freelance designers find high-quality images."

 

 

 

• International Center of Photography
  Images from the collections of the International Center of Photography. Included in Blog story format.

 

 

 

• Library of Congress: American Memory Project
  American Memory Project from the Library of Congress is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections

 

 

 

• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Catalog Online
  View a digital collection of photographs and prints owned by the Library of Congress, dating back to the Civil War. Also includes posters, comics, daguerreotypes, and blueprints.

 

 

 

• LIFE Photo Archive
  Millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

 

 

 

• Modern Photographers Collection
  Work from nationally and internationally renowned photographers active in the Pacific Northwest, including Art Hupy, Ernest Kassowitz, Kyo Koike, Frank Kunishige, Mary Randlett and others. From the UW Libraries Special Collections.

 

 

 

• National Archives ARC - Digital Copies Search
  Search for digital copies of the photographs, movies, data, drawings, maps and other documents from the National Archives.

 

 

 

• National Geographic Photography
  Flickr-- Yahoo.com's image sharing website, 32 millions of images worldwide, under Creative Commons license. Best for architecture, popular culture, recent events, people in context; many images offered under a Creative Commons license.

 

 

 

• The New Deal Network Photo Gallery
  Over 5000 Great Depression era images from the National Archives, the FDR Library and many other sources.

 

 

 

• Newseum
  Today's front pages and limited archive of historical events beginning in 2003

 

 

 

• New York Public Library - 'The Pageant of America' Potograph Archive
  American photographs from the 1860s-1920s in the New York Public Library. Includes albumen, platinum and silver gelatin prints from photographers including Alexander Gardner, William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, Edward S. Curtis, and Man Ray.

 

 

 

• Polanoid
  Image collection of over 290,000 Palaroid photos.

 

 

 

• Pictures and Picture Stories (Reuters, current events)

 

 

 

• Photomuse
  Collections of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, and the International Center of Photography, New York.

 

 

 

• Smithsonian Institute
  Images available from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution.

 

 

 

• U.S. Government Photos and Images
  A large collection of photos and images made available by the U.S. government. ost of these images and graphics are available for use in the public domain, and they may be used and reproduced without permission or fee. However, some images may be protected by license. We strongly recommend you thoroughly read the disclaimers on each site before use. For information about obtaining seals of Federal Agencies and the United States, please see the Government Printing Office website.

 

 

 

• William Gedney Photographs and Writings
  Hosted by Duke University Libraries, this 50,000 item collection documents the work of photographer William Gedney, covering the 1950s to 1989 and locations in the United States, India, and Europe.

 

 

 

• World Images
  Provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 65,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.

 

Sculpture

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

 

 

 

• British Museum, London
  Features digital images of around objects from the huge range of periods and cultures represented in the British Museum.

 

 

 

• Courtauld Institute of Art
  Images ("40,000 high quality digital images of paintings, drawings, architecture and sculpture from the Courtauld Gallery and Conway Library are available for searching, rights clearance and download on this site.")

 

 

 

• Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.
  Images of objects from the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries.

 

 

 

• Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  Contains images of many of the artworks held and displayed by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.

 

 

 

• Google Art Project
  High-resolution images of selected works from 16 museums around the world, including Gemaldegalerie, Berlin; National Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Versailles; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Uffizi, Florence; Museum Kampa, Prague; and more... Gallery and street views, Explore the Museum feature, videos

 

 

 

• Guggenheim Museum, New York
  This online collection contains selected classic works and more recent acquisitions from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

 

 

 

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  Provides access to images held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including highlights from each of the curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and the entire Department of American Painting and Sculpture.

 

 

 

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Contains images of objects from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

 

 

• Museum of Modern Art, New York
  The online collection of the Museum of Modern Art includes artists and objects from the departments of Architecture and Design, Drawings, Painting and Sculpture, Prints and Illustrated Books, and Film and Media.

 

 

 

• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  Contains text and/or data on all of the objects in the National Gallery's collection, and images of more than 5600 objects.

 

 

 

• Smithsonian American Art Museum
  American art, craft, and design from all regions, traditions, and cultures. Searchable and browsable by artist, work type, and subject.

 

 

 

• Tate Collection, Britain
  An online database of works in the Tate Collection, plus an illustrated glossary.

 

 

 

• Victoria and Albert Museum
  Search for over 1,000,000 works from the V&A's collections, including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture and textiles.

 

 

 

• Web Gallery of Art
  Web Gallery of Art The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries started in 1996

 

 

 

• Yale University Art Gallery
  Works from the Gallery, including paintings, decorative arts, arms and armor, and more. Searchable by department, classification, artist, etc.

Social Sciences

Anthropology

 

• American Philosophical Society - Anthropology Image Collection
  "With collections concerning archaeology, linguistics, cultural anthropology, and physical anthropology, the APS is a rich resource of images depicting both the study of these disciplines and the people who practiced them."

 

 

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

 

 

 

• Harvard University - Visual Information Access (VIA) system
  "A union catalog of visual resources at Harvard, focusing on artistic and cultural materials."

 

 

 

• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
  "Provides access to the Peabody Museum's database for objects, paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs. The Peabody's Online Database offers access to over 300,000 records for which there are images. The site offers users the opportunity to browse preselected groups of commonly requested objects, a simple search function, and an advanced search function. Additional options for researchers are available on request."

 

 

 

• Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - Online Exhibits
  The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, through its research, collections, exhibitions, and educational programming, advances understanding of the world's cultural heritage. Founded in 1887, Penn Museum has conducted more than 400 archaeological and anthropological expeditions around the world.

 

 

 

• Smithsonian Institution - Collection Search Center
  Search over 6.4 million records with 536,000 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.

 

 

 

• Smithsonian Institution - S.I. Research Information System (SIRIS)
  Anthropological fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, artwork, maps and more than 60,000 digital images are described in the Archival, Manuscript and Photographic Collections catalog.

 

 

 

• University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Image Database
  "The Museum of Anthropological Archaeology's image database is the culmination of 5 years work to digitize its immense collection of color 35mm slides that represent over 60 years of archaeological work throughout the United States, Latin America, Asia, and Europe."

 

 

 

• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
  Use the search box (upper left) to locate images from the UW-Madison Digital Collections. Significant collections of images are available from Africa, East/Southeast Asia, and North America. The collection also includes images of primates and other zoological specime

 

 

 

• Wisconsin Historical Society - Anthropology Collections
  The Anthropology collection includes ethnographic and archaeological artifacts. The Native American ethnographic collection contains about 3500 objects from many North American cultural areas, primarily from the Upper Great Lakes region.

 

 

 

• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

Archeaology

 

• Archaeology Image Bank
  Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History. Hundreds of images from various archealogical excavation sites.

 

 

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

 

 

 

• Lantern Slides of Classical Antiquity
  Digitised collection of images of Greek and Roman monuments from Bryn Mawr College's slide collection.

 

 

 

• PictureAustralia
  Search the image collections of more than 50 Australian libraries, museums, galleries and other cultural institutions, as well as the National Library of New Zealand. PictureAustralia searches the digitised image collections of Australia's major cultural institutions (e.g. National Library of Australia, Australian War Memorial) as well as many smaller collections, so you do not need to do separate searches.

 

 

 

• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

African Studies

 

• Africa and the African Diaspora (NYPL)
  Browse more than 11,000 items ranging from prints and photographs to historical documents relating to African and African Diasporan history and cultures from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

 

 

 

• Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent (University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries and African Studies Program, Madison, Wisconsin)
  The website offers downloadable images, sound files, and other materials on Africa drawn from contributions by UWM faculty over the last 20-30 years.

 

 

 

• African Photography Basel Ethnographic Museum. (Erin Haney & Jürg Schneider, Basel, Switzerland)
  Photography of West Africa and beyond, 1840 to now: digital images of photo albums in the Carl Passavant collection, acquired during Passavant's travels in West and Central Africa, 1883-1885 and now held by the Museum der Kulturen in Basel. This digital project is designed to serve as a repository of historical photographs from Africa. Other collectors and institutions are invited to contribute content.

 

 

 

• Association Images et Mémoires (Paris, France)
  A French language site offers a digital archive of postcards, as well as some photographs and engravings from all over Africa during the colonial era.

 

 

 

• Dogon Niger Lobi Photographic Albums (Huib Blom, Switzerland)
  An extensive collection of travel photographs of people, landscapes, and cultural sites among the Dogon and the Lobi of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana; plus images from along the Niger River in Mali. Note: individual photos are labelled, but there are no explanatory captions.

 

 

 

• G.I. Jones' Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art & Culture (Prof. John C. McCall, in cooperation with Ursula Jones, Dept. of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois)
  This is an archive of digitized photographs depicting the arts and cultures of southeastern Nigeria. The collection includes examples from Ibibio, Igbo, Ijo and Ogoni speaking peoples. All of the photographs were taken in the 1930s by the late G.I. Jones, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. The majority of the images are from the Igbo speaking regions where Jones conducted most of his research.

 

 

 

• Images du passé en Afrique de l'Ouest (Olivier Blot, Paris, France)
  Another French language site offering a digital archive of over 900 postcards and other images from the colonial era in Senegal, French Soudan (Mali), Guinea, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Dahomey (Benin), Niger, Chad, and Cameroon. Northwestern University Herskovits Library: Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, 1860-1960 -and- Southern Africa/Anti-Apartheid Posters (Evanston, Illinois)

 

 

 

• Images of Colonial Africa (circa 1900-1914) by Laura Neva Collins of the Africa Inland Mission (Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois)
  "The images displayed here are one woman's view, mostly of Kenya, at the beginning of the twentieth century, probably before 1914. They depict the country's society, customs, economics, and geography, as well as its growing Christian church, the missionary community assisting in that endeavor, and Collins herself. Also included are some photographs from Cameroon, the Belgian Congo and Uganda."

 

 

 

• Kanga & Kitenge: Cloth and Culture in East Africa, Erie Art Museum, September 27, 2008 - April 5, 2009 (Erie, Pennsylvania)
  The web site for this art exhibition features images of kanga from the Museum's collections and photographs of kanga and kitenge being used, Swahili inscriptions, etc. ...all in downloadable PowerPoint files.

 

 

 

• Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa, March-July 2010
  This exhibition site about sculptures from a historical kingdom in Nigeria includes images, historical summaries, events information, and several short videos.

 

 

 

• Post Cards = Cartes Postales de l'Afrique Occidentale Française (1895-1960). Collection Iconographie. (Archives Nationales du Sénégal, Dakar, Sénégal)

 

 

 

• United Kingdom. The National Archives: Africa Through a Lens (London)
  Digitized selections from an extensive archive of photographs from British colonial administrators and travellers in Africa, 1860-1960. See the digital image collection via Flickr.com.

 

 

 

• West African Online Digital Library: Selected Historical Photographs, Islamic, and Other Images from 20th century Senegal, Guinea, and West Africa. (African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)

 

 

 

• Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art, June-September 2005
  "The exhibition is organized into sections that consider the forms and underlying aesthetic values of Urhobo society: personal images that offer protection and advancement; images of women at various stages of life; masquerade arts; and at the grandest level, communal shrine art, awesome in scale and form. Integral to the exhibition are works by contemporary Urhobo artist Bruce Onobrakpeya."

 

 

 

• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

 

 

• Yale University Library: RAAI--Ross Archive of African Images (New Haven, Connecticut)
  James J. Ross Archive of African Images 1590-1920 is a database of approximately 5,000 pictures of African art published before 1921.

 

Chinese Area Studies

 

• AGSL Digital Photo Archive

 

 

 

• Arts of China Consortium(ACC)
  Collects websites on Chinese art history, archaeology and visual and material culture

 

 

 

• Artspeak China
  Artspeak China: online collaborative encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese art.  It is bilingual, Wikipedia-style reference guide to contemporary Chinese art, allowing readers to create or edit articles in one language with their efforts reflected in the other. Content is searchable and cross-referenced via internal links and accompanied by an illustrated timeline of historical and arts events

 

 

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

 

 

 

• Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong)
  Collect, preserve and make information on contemporary Asian art easily accessible in order to facilitate understanding, research and writing in the field

 

 

 

• Asia Society: Art and China's Revolution
  Art and China's Revolution, Asia Society exhibition, 2008 艺术与中国革命 Chinese art (1950s-1970s)exhibitions.

 

 

 

• Asianart.com

 

 

 

• Asian Art Museum, San Franciso, CA

 

 

 

• Asian Historical Architecture
  A visual tour of Asian Historical sites with introductions

 

 

 

• 故宮博物院(Beijing Palace Museum)

 

 

 

• Bucklin China Archive
  Bucklin China Archive - Looking at China in 1924 : In 1923, Harold Bucklin took his family Shanghai and produced an exquisite body of work of large format photographs of Pre-Revolutionary China using a Graflex camera.

 

 

 

• Buddhist Art WWW Virtual Library

 

 

 

• Century Online China Art Networks

 

 

 

• China: 5,000 Years
  The Huntington Archive: "China: 5,000 Years" : online exhibition of Chinese art from 1850 to present

 

 

 

• China 1972 [Cultural Revolution] Image Database

 

 

 

• Chinese Art (through Asia-art.net)

 

 

 

• Chinese contemporary photography
  Chinese contemporary photography: a virtual exhibition of a private collection of 150 works from 40 artists.

 

 

 

• Chinese Cultural Studies: Images

 

 

 

• Chinese Studies Images from Duke

 

 

 

• Chinese Studies - Print Images
  Duke University Library has a sizable collection of pictorial works (most of them are photographs reprinted in books) about China. The following are selected online archives and resouces:

 

 

 

• The Cleveland Museum of Art - Collections Departments

 

 

 

• Contemporary Chinese Photography
  Contemporary Chinese Photography : part of the Conscientious site with 28 Chinese artists' works.

 

 

 

• Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.
  Images of objects from the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries.

 

 

 

• Gerald & Rella Warner Manchuria Negative Collection
  Gerald & Rella Warner Manchuria Negatives : US Vice Consul to Mukden (Shenyang) Gerald Warner created these 298 photographs between March 22, 1934 and August 2, 1935.

 

 

 

• From the Masses to the Masses: An artist in Mao's China
  From the Masses to the Masses: An artist in Mao's China is a film and website about Jin Zhilin, a Chinese artist. 

 

 

 

• Gerald & Rella Warner Taiwan Negative Collection
  Gerald & Rella Warner Taiwan Negatives : US Consul to Taiwan Gerald Warner and his wife Rella created these 369 photographic negatives between August 26, 1937 and March 8, 1941.

 

 

 

• Gerald & Rella Warner Taiwan Postcard Collection
  Gerald & Rella Warner Postcards collected in Taiwan by Gerald and Rella Warner during Gerald's service as US Consul between August 26, 1937 and March 8, 1941. Warner Taiwan Postcards contains 201 postcards and 139 b/w commercial photographs from that period.

 

 

 

• Himalayan Art
  Database of images and links to related site

 

 

 

• Historical Photographs of China

 

 

 

• Hong Kong Picture Archive

 

 

 

• Hoover Institution Political Poster Database
  More than 300 posters on China. Users can browse by country or search.

 

 

 

• Hu Ming: A comtemporary woman painter in China.

 

 

 

• Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
  Countries covered in the collection include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar (Burma). Works range from approximately 2500 B.C.E. to the present, and documentation includes contemporary religious activities in various parts of Asia. Contains predominantly Buddhist material, but also includes Hindu, Jain, Islamic, and other works.

 

 

 

• IDP International Dunhuang Project
  More than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings and artifacts from Dunhaung and other Silk Road sites of the first millennium AD.

 

 

 

• International Mission Photography
  International Mission Photography : historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China(10,000 images), Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean. You can browse by places or search by keywords, collections, and places.

 

 

 

• Korean War Historical Images (Flickr)
  Korean War Historical Images a Flicker site of images from the Korean War. Credit Department of Defense and photographer (see attached captions.)

 

 

 

• Inside Out: New Chinese Art

 

 

 

• Literature in Line: Lianhuanhua Picture Stories From China
  Electronic edition of the exhibition at The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, April 25, 1997 - June 13, 1997.

 

 

 

• Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

 

• Michael Lewis Taiwan Postcard Collection
  The Michael Lewis Taiwan Image Collection: 517 colonial-era (1895-1945) postcards from Japanese governed Taiwan.

 

 

 

• MIT's Visualizing Cultures
  Image-driven scholarship: art images and photopgraphs are introduced with essays.

 

 

 

• Morning Sun
  Morning Sun: A film and website about Cultural Revolution

 

 

 

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Contains images of objects from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

 

 

• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

 

 

 

• New Chinese Art
  The Saatchi gallery : New Chinese Art

 

 

 

• New Chinese Art: contemporary Chinese photography
  New Chinese Art: contemporary Chinese photography : has works of 17 Chinese artists, no information on the artists.

 

 

 

• Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution 1963-1979

 

 

 

• Rethinking Cultural Revolution Culture

 

 

 

• The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China

 

 

 

• Scenery Pictures of China(CND InfoBase)

 

 

 

• Scenic Taiwan Book : 'Taiwan no fūkō' (Scenic Taiwan) 台湾の風光
  Scenic Taiwan Book : 'Taiwan no fūkō' (Scenic Taiwan) 台湾の風光 is one of many photo albums published in the 1930s that depict different areas of the Japanese Empire.  This particular volume was published in Wakayama Prefecture in or after 1938. Its editor, one Yamazaki Kin'ichirō (or Kane'ichirō) (1897-1985), published several albums of Taiwan, Manchuria, and Hokkaidō photographs in this same decade. 'Scenic Taiwan' extols the good results of Japanese colonial rule, both in picture and in text.  This digital version features the editor's translations of all captions, along with the original Japanese, providing a resource for studies in colonial architecture, discourse, and East Asian folkways.

 

 

 

• 上海博物館 (Shanghai Museum)

 

 

 

• Sidney D. Gamble Photographs
  Approximately 5000 photographs, primarily of China, 1917-1932.

 

 

 

• Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages

 

 

 

• Taiwan Photographic Monthly Periodical : The Taiwan shashinchō 台湾写真帳 (Taiwan Photograph Album)
  Taiwan Photographic Monthly Periodical : The Taiwan shashinchō 台湾写真帳 (Taiwan Photograph Album) was published monthly from November 1914 through December 1915, for a total of 14 issues.  The 468 pages captured for this collection include reprints of photographs from other Japanese publications, and many unique photographs.

 

 

 

• 國立故宮博物院, Taipei (National Palace museum)

 

 

 

• Taoism and the Arts of China (special exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago Museum)

 

 

 

• The Tibet Album: British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950

 

 

 

• Virtual Shanghai
  Virtual Shanghai is part of the IAO-Databases Project and contains 4,000 images(mostly before 1949). The images contain basic metadata (often including a short description) and are searchable according to the following criteria: title/subject; date; estim

 

 

 

• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

Cultural Studies

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

East Asian Studies

• Asian Historical Architecture: a photographic survey
  Contains over 9000 photos from 568 sites in eighteen countries, surveying Asia's architectural heritage.
   
• Cambodian Index
   
• Cultural Heritage Administration
  A Korean database of architectural and historical sites.
   
• Digital South Asia Library: American Institute of Indian Studies
  The images fall into the broad categories of architecture, sculpture, terracotta, painting and numismatics.
   
• Historical Photographs of China
   
• The Huntington Archive
  The archive of Buddhist and Asian Art contains nearly 300,000 original slides and photographs – photographic documentation of art and architecture throughout Asia. Includes videos and online exhibitions.
   
• Images of Asia
  Many old images of South Asian countries.
   
• Japanese Magic Lantern Images
  There are about 1,500 magic lantern slides in the UHM Japan Collection.
   
• Sidney D. Gamble Photographs
  Approximately 5000 photographs, primarily of China, 1917-1932.
   
• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

Japanese Area Studies

• 20th Century East Asian Image Collection documents the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937-1945)
  A visual history of Buddhist practices and daily life in both rural and urban China
   
• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
   
• Asian Historical Architecture
  A visual tour of Asian Historical sites with introductions
   
• Cities/Buildings Database
   
• Japanese Buddhist Statuary (A to Z Photo Dictionary)
   
• Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period, Nagasaki University Library
   
• One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Brooklyn Museum)
   
• Visual resources for Japan
  80+ freely accessible websites sortable by format, subject and/or historical period. Formats include architecture, calligraphy, ceramics, folk arts, maps, painting, photography, postcards, posters, prints, scrolls, sculpture.  Relevant subjects include colonialism and warfare.
   
• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

• 教育用画像素材 (Japan) provides a collection of photos categorized in education subjects

Latin American Studies

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
   
• Google Art Project
  High-resolution images of selected works from 16 museums around the world, including Gemaldegalerie, Berlin; National Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Versailles; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Uffizi, Florence; Museum Kampa, Prague; and more... Gallery and street views, Explore the Museum feature, videos
   
• The Kerr Collections
  Includes the Maya Vase database and a PreColumbian portfolio.
   
• Maya Adventure
  Images from the Science Museum's large collection
   
• Mexican Colonial Architecture
  This website arose from my experience in teaching a Latin American Studies class entitled Art, Music and Literature of Mexico. The course covers material from Mexico's early pre-Columbian antecedents down to its contemporary culture. The art unit for the colonial period (1521-1821) concentrates on the architecture of New Spain.
   
• Museo National de Antropolgia
  A national museum of Mexico containing significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from the pre-Columbian heritage of Mexico, such as the Piedra del Sol (the Stone of the Sun, what has been incorrectly identified as the Aztec calendar) and the 16th-century Aztec statue of Xochipilli.
   
• Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America (1520-1820)
  This site profiles three centuries of Spanish American art, focusing on the hybridization process mixing European, native American, and even African and Asian visual cultures. The site's backbone is a gallery of images of manuscripts, paintings, religious objects, and furniture, each accompanied by a description of the items functions and implications.
   
• WAYEB Image Links
  The European Association of Mayanists collection of useful image databases.
   
• Wikimedia Commons
  Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content including images, sound and video clips.
   
• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

Middle Eastern Studies

• al-Mashriq - Photographs
   
• American Geographic Society Library, Photographic Collections
  Collections with Middle East photographs include the Roeming Collection and the Harrison Forman Collection. The latter includes 733 slides of daily life, historic sites and architecture in Afghanistan in the late 1960s, 195 of which are online.
   
• Arab Image Foundation
  The Arab Image Foundation (AIF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the collection, preservation and study of photography and other visual material from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab Diaspora.
   
• Aramco Services Company, Digital Image Archive
   
• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
   
• CAMIO
  OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online offers art images that are rights-cleared for educational use. CAMIO is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms. Includes about 95,000 art images—photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture—plus audio, video and mixed media. CAMIO is licensed for use by students, faculty, and researchers at subscribing institutions. Works of art may be used for educational and research purposes during the term of the subscription, if they are properly credited. Images may not be published or otherwise distributed.
   
• Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
  Contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain taken by the late Eugene Casselman (1912-1996) during his thirty years of travel throughout the Iberian peninsula. The images span over one thousand years of architectural history, from the seventh to the seventeenth century. The majority of the slides focus on the Mudejar style, an ornate court style largely inspired by Spanish Islamic architecture that was shared among Islamic, Jewish, and Christian cultures during the later Middle Ages in Spain.
   
• Israel National Photo Collection
   
• Lebanese Photo Bank
   
• Library of Congress: Abdul-Hamid II Collection
   
• Library of Congress: Matson Negative Collection
   
• The Middle East in Early Prints & Photographs (NYPL)
   
• Middle East Photograph Archive (U. of Chicago)
   
• The Oriental Institute, U. of Chicago. Photographic Archives
   
• ProjectSAVE: Armenian Photograph Archives, Inc.
   
• The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China
   
• Royal Geographic Society Picture Library
  Holdings include about 3,000 photogaphs of Iran, images from the Society's sponsored research expeditions, and special collections related to Arabia, incl. pictures documenting the 1932 crossing of the Empty Quarter, and early images of Mecca. A selection of about 1,200 photographs of the Middle East are available online.
   
• TIMEA (Travelers in the Middle East Archives)
  A body of literature and images documenting travels during the 18th, 19th and 20th century of Europeans and Americans. Collections include historical maps and plans, and other visual materials.
   
• Williams Afghan Media Project
  Three photo collections that document in image and sound Afghan history and society from the late 19th century through the Soviet occupation represent the heart of the WAMP website: * The Khalilullah Enayat Seraj (KES) collection of photographs taken between the late 19th century and 1930, * The Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree collection of slides taken between 1949 and 1987, and * The Afghan Media Resource Center (AMRC) collection of photographs and slides taken between 1987 and 1992.
   
• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

Russian & Slavic Studies

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
   
• George Eastman House: Collections Online
  Thumbnail images of photographs, daguerreotypes, lantern slides arranged by photographer and collection from the vast holdings of the George Eastman House
   
• Hoover Political Poster Database -- search by Country and Subject
   
• Inventory of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Digital Projects
  search for "poster" or "photo"
   
• Library of Congress: American Memory Project
  American Memory Project from the Library of Congress is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections
   
• Life Magazine Photo Archive
  Includes a large selection of photos appearing in Life magazine.
   
• National Geographic Photography
  Flickr-- Yahoo.com's image sharing website, 32 millions of images worldwide, under Creative Commons license. Best for architecture, popular culture, recent events, people in context; many images offered under a Creative Commons license.
   
• NYPL Digital Gallery
  Provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
   
• Posters of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922
   
• Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945
   
• Semyon Fridlyand Archive Collection (University of Denver)
  digital archive of over 10,000 photographs of daily life in the Soviet Union (1940s-1980s) by photojournalist and photo editor of Ogonek (the Soviet Union’s version of Life magazine). During his 40-year career, Fridlyand photographed every major theme in official Soviet history, from industrialization and collectivization, to the building of a Soviet empire stretching from the Pacific to the Baltic, and from the Arctic to the Black Sea. Fridlyand also covered the battlefields of WWII.
   
• Stalinka
  "Stalinka is intended as an online resource for students, teachers, scholars, and anyone conducting research on Stalin/ism."
   
• Visual Information Access (Harvard University Libraries)
  union catalog of visual resources, focusing on artistic and cultural materials. including Slavic (e.g. images of costumes from Ballets Russe).
   
• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

South Asian Studies

 

• AGSL [American Geographical Society Library] Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East

 

• Alkazi Foundation for the Arts (India)
   
• AMES Digital Image Database
   
• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
   
• Asianart.com
   
• Asian Historical Architecture: a photographic survey
  Contains over 9000 photos from 568 sites in eighteen countries, surveying Asia's architectural heritage.
   
• Beyond the Taj: Architectural Traditions and Landscape Experience in South Asia
   
• Birla Academy of Art & Culture
  The Birla Academy of Art & Culture at Calcutta was established in 1966 with the principal objective of fostering the growth of art and culture with emphasis on visual and performing arts.
   
• Black Peacock: Indian Art
   
• Digital Himalaya project
  A project to develop digital collection, storage and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region -- collections include * Census of Nepal 2001 * Fürer-Haimendorf Film Collection * Films * Journals * Maps * Music * Naga Videodisc * Rare Books & Manuscripts * Thak Archive * Thangmi Archive * Williamson Collection * Wutu Collection
   
• Digital MPP Old images & Historic ephemera
   
• Digital South Asia Library - Images
  South Asia reference resources, images, maps, statistics, etc. from University of Chicago.
   
• Images of Asia
  Many old images of South Asian countries.
   
• Imperial War Museum
  Photographs from the Imperial War museum in London. Can search by place and time period. Example India and pre 1914.
   
• Indian Paintings & Textiles (Durham Univ.)
   
• Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Art University of Vienna
   
• John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art 
   
• Mary Binney Wheeler and the Era of Romantic Travel (UPenn)
   
• Minassian Collections: Persian, Mughal and Indian Miniature Paintings (Brown Univ. Library)
   
• National Databank on Indian art and culture, image collections
   
• Power & Desire: South Asian paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art
   
• Resources of Indian Cultural Heritage
  Sponsored by the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, this site includes digital images, online audio collections, and online books.
   
• Royal Geographic Society (Asia)
  Large image database. Can search by keyword and limit searches to time periods.
   
• Sources on South Asian Art and Architecture (Columbia Univ.)
   
• South Asian Art and Culture (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
   
• South Asian & Himalayan Art: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
   
• South and Southeast Asian Art: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
   
• Tasveer Ghar: Digital Archive of South Asian Popular Visual Culture
   
• Understanding South Asian Art (Smithsonian)
   
• Williams Afghan Media Project
  Three photo collections that document in image and sound Afghan history and society from the late 19th century through the Soviet occupation represent the heart of the WAMP website: * The Khalilullah Enayat Seraj (KES) collection of photographs taken between the late 19th century and 1930, * The Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree collection of slides taken between 1949 and 1987, and * The Afghan Media Resource Center (AMRC) collection of photographs and slides taken between 1987 and 1992.
   
• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

African American Studies

 

• African-American Odyssey
  This Online exhibit showcases the incomparable African-American holdings at the Library of Congress. It includes links to Library of Congress collections including the Frederick Douglass Papers, "From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909," and "Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860."

 

 

 

• African-American Women (Duke University)
  Photographs and primary sources of African American women related to slavery (Duke)

 

 

 

• Africana & Black Hisotry (NYPL)
  Browse more than 11,000 items ranging from prints and photographs to historical documents relating to African and African Diasporan history and cultures from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

 

 

 

• Africans in America
  This companion site to the PBS television series "Africans in America" examines the history of slavery in America in four chronological parts. It offers historical narratives, a resource bank of images and documents, and a teacher's guide to using the site and series in the classroom.

 

 

 

• AP Images
  AP Images is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery, with a 50 million-image print and negative archive. As an essential source of photographs and graphics for professional image buyers, AP Images strives to meet the needs of today's global customer through superior image quality, selection and service.

 

 

 

• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
  The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. This site provides a collection of images related to American slave trade and slave societies. The images were compiled from a variety of sources and are comprised primarily of visual documents dating to the period of slavery. The exhibit is sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and by the Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia.

 

 

 

• Digital Durham
  The Digital Durham website offers students, teachers, and researchers a range of primary sources with which they can investigate the economic, social, cultural, and political history of a post-bellum southern community

 

 

 

• Digital Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century (NYPL)
  View a portfolio of 500 images documenting the social, political and cultural world of African Americans from slavery through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond.

 

 

 

• Documenting America (Library of Congress)
  Presents more than 160,000 images from the Library of Congress collections. A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture.

 

 

 

• Documenting the American South
  "Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. "

 

 

 

• Jackson Davis Collection
  Jackson Davis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, took nearly 6,000 photographs of African American schools, teachers and students throughout the Southeastern United States.

 

 

 

• Library of Congress African American Mosaic
  A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture. Includes several collections of images/primary sources related to African colonization, migration, and the WPA.

 

 

 

• Michael Francis Blake Photographs, 1912-1934
  he collection consists of the contents of a photographic album entitled "Portraits of Members," containing 117 photographs of men, women, and children, both singly and in groups.

 

 

 

• VCU Libraries Digital Collection
  Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection is a digital collection of over 250 images of African Americans dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth century, selected from the George and Huestis Cook Photograph Collection at the Valentine Richmond History Center.

 

 

 

• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

Chicano Studies

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

 

 

 

• Latin American Pamphlets
  Harvard University's collection of 19th and 20th century pamphlets

 

 

 

• The Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs
  Early photographs and prints of the New World, from Mexico to Argentina, and parts of the Caribbean

 

 

 

• University of Essex Latin American Art
  A collection of modern and contemporary art from Latin America

 

 

 

• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

Native American Studies

 

• Canadian Art Database (York University)

 

 

 

• Carnegie Arts of the United States

 

 

 

• Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (Library of Congress)

 

 

 

• Inuit Artists (Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art)

 

 

 

• Native American Art and Culture Collection (National Anthropological, Archives, Smithsonian Institution)

 

 

 

• Smithsonian American Art Museum
  American art, craft, and design from all regions, traditions, and cultures. Searchable and browsable by artist, work type, and subject.

 

 

 

• Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) Image Gallery

 

 

 

• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

Gender & Women's Studies

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

 

 

 

• Library of Congress: American Memory Project
  American Memory Project from the Library of Congress is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections

 

 

 

• LIFE Photo Archive
  Millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

 

 

 

• NYPL Digital Gallery
  Provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

 

Political Science

 

• See also: Journalism

 

 

 

• American Memory Images
  Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

 

 

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

 

 

 

• Flickr Commons
  Search and use hundreds of images with "no known copyright restrictions." A joint venture of Flickr and the Library of Congress, Flickr Commons was designed to increase access to publicly-held photography collections.

 

 

 

• Illustrated Newspaper Supplements (Flickr Collection)
  Illustrated newspapers (starting 1909) from the Library of Congress's Historical Newspapers image collection, displayed on Flickr. Contains many public domain images.

 

 

 

• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Catalog Online
  View a digital collection of photographs and prints owned by the Library of Congress, dating back to the Civil War. Also includes posters, comics, daguerreotypes, and blueprints.

 

 

 

• New York Public Library Digital Gallery
  NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library.

 

 

 

• New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
  Presents more than 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.

 

 

 

• Visual collections: images of art, history and culture
  Includes Cartography, Fine Arts, Architecture, Photography, and other image. Digital image collections from Museums, Universities and private collections throughout the world - by Cartography Associates (David Rumsey)

 

 

 

• Wikimedia Commons
  Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content including images, sound and video clips.

 

 

 

• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

Physical Science & Engineering

Astronomy

 

• Apollo Image Atlas
  Comprehensive online collection of Apollo-Saturn mission photography from the Lunar and Planetary Institute, including 25,000 lunar images, both from orbit and from the moon's surface, as well as photographs of the earth, astronauts and mission hardware. Search by term or browse by Apollo craft, camera type, and much more.

 

 

 

• Emilio Segrè Visual Archives (Niels Bohr Library, American Institute of Physics)
  7,000 historical lithographs, photographs, engravings, slides and other illustrative resources of 20th century physicists and astronomers available online for reference only

 

 

 

• JSC Digital Image Collection
  9,000 images from NASA's Johnson Space Center press release photos from the Apollo, Gemini, Mercury, Skylab, and Shuttle missions

 

 

 

• KSC Shuttle Photo and Video Archive (NASA)

 

 

 

• http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
  APOD

 

 

 

• Hubble Gallery
  Hubble Telescope images from the Space Telescope Science Institute; search for images by term of browse by categories including galaxies, solar system, nebulae, stars, the universe, and more.

 

 

 

• NASA Images
  A new online archive of hundreds of thousands of NASA images.

 

 

 

• National Optical Astronomy Observatory Image Gallery
  The gallery includes pictures taken with the facilities of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, and also pictures of their telescopes, instruments and history.

 

 

 

• National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Image Gallery
  A collection of astronomical images taken with NRAO instruments, as well as photographs of NRAO telescopes and facilities.

 

 

 

• Science Photo Library (SPL)
  "World's leading provider of science photos" 100,000 science, technology & industry, space & astronomy, history of science & medicine and more images

 

 

 

• Science & Society Picture Library (Science Museum, London)
  Aeronautics, chemistry, optics, physics, space technology, rocketry and more images

 

 

 

• Sloan Digital Sky Survey 
  Data, pictures, and more from this project to map the entire sky.

 

 

 

• Space NIX: Nasa Image Exchange (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

 

Physics

 

• Archive of Physics Images
  From American Institute of Physics

 

 

 

• Berkeley Lab Images
  Particle physics images hosted by the University of California, Berkeley Lab.

 

 

 

• Emilio Segrè Visual Archives (Niels Bohr Library, American Institute of Physics)
  7,000 historical lithographs, photographs, engravings, slides and other illustrative resources of 20th century physicists and astronomers available online for reference only

 

 

 

• NASA Images
  A new online archive of hundreds of thousands of NASA images.

 

 

 

• Physics in Pictures (Physics Central)
  Physics in Pictures features exciting illustrations of nature's infinite variety and humankind's ingenuity. Each picture is accompanied by a brief explanation and links to a story on related current physics research.

 

 

 

• Royalty Free Physics Pictures

 

 

 

• Science & Society Picture Library (Science Museum, London)
  Aeronautics, chemistry, optics, physics, space technology, rocketry and more images

 

Geography

 

• American Memory Map Collections
  Online maps from the collections at the Library of Congress.

 

 

 

• Bell library map collection
  Historical digital map images from the University of Minnesota James Ford Bell Library.

 

 

 

• David Ramsey Map Collections
  The historical map collection has over 22,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials.

 

 

 

• Degree Confluence Project
  Photographs from the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world.

 

 

 

• Earth Science Photographic Library Archive
  The U.S. Geological Survey has a collection of over 400,000 taken in the process of doing geologic research in the United States and U.S. territories from 1868 to the present. These images document the discovery, development, and science in the U.S. done by the Geological Survey and its predecessors. This site provides online access to some of these photographs.

 

 

 

• Earth Science World

 

 

 

• EROS Image Gallery
  The U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center stores and distributes a variety of data, including cartographic, satellite, and aircraft data. Their image gallery includes Landsat and Shaded relief images of U.S. States and images from their Earth as Art displays.

 

 

 

• History and Geography, New York Public LIbrary Digital Gallery

 

 

 

• HubbleSite Gallery
  Images from the Hubble telescope.

 

 

 

• Landsat Online Archive
  This site can be used to access images from the Landsat satellites, which have collected Earth observations and remote sensing imagery since 1972.

 

 

 

• Our Earth as Art
  Images of the earth from the U.S. Geological Survey.

 

 

 

• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
  Extensive map online map collections from the University of Texas at Austin.

 

 

 

• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

Geology

 

• Bell library map collection
  Historical digital map images from the University of Minnesota James Ford Bell Library.

 

 

 

• David Ramsey Map Collections
  The historical map collection has over 22,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials.

 

 

 

• Earth Science Photographic Library Archive
  The U.S. Geological Survey has a collection of over 400,000 taken in the process of doing geologic research in the United States and U.S. territories from 1868 to the present. These images document the discovery, development, and science in the U.S. done by the Geological Survey and its predecessors. This site provides online access to some of these photographs.

 

 

 

• Earth Science World

 

 

 

• EROS Image Gallery
  The U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center stores and distributes a variety of data, including cartographic, satellite, and aircraft data. Their image gallery includes Landsat and Shaded relief images of U.S. States and images from their Earth as Art displays.

 

 

 

• Landsat Online Archive
  This site can be used to access images from the Landsat satellites, which have collected Earth observations and remote sensing imagery since 1972.

 

 

 

• NOAA Photo Library
  Weather and space images, images of the Earth's shores and coastal seas, and marine species images ranging from great whales to the most minute plankton. Search by term or browse by categories including the National Weather Service, fisheries, coral kingdom, and more.

 

 

 

• Our Earth as Art
  Images of the earth from the U.S. Geological Survey.

 

 

 

• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
  Extensive map online map collections from the University of Texas at Austin.

 

Aerospace Engineering

 

• Encyclopedia Astronautica  [ http://www.astronautix.com/ ] 
  Searchable or browseable; includes over 9,000 images and "Today in Space History".

 

 

 

• http://nix.nasa.gov/
  NASA's images of aeronautics, aircraft, projects, the solar system and beyond, space flights, and more. Search or browse by category.

 

 

 

• http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/
  Comprehensive online collection of Apollo-Saturn mission photography from the Lunar and Planetary Institute, including 25,000 lunar images, both from orbit and from the moon's surface, as well as photographs of the earth, astronauts and mission hardware. Search by term or browse by Apollo craft, camera type, and much more.

 

 

 

• Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (KMODDL, Cornell University LIbrary)
  Five separate kinematic model image collections, including Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 19th-century Reuleaux collection of more than 220 mechanism and machine models

 

 

 

• NASA Life Sciences Data Archive (LSDA)
  NASA's Life Sciences Data Archive (LSDA) contains information and data from human and non-human space flight experiments and related ground control studies funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This archive contains information about experiments conducted from NASA's first experiments during the 1960s to the present time. Information and data about space life sciences space flight experiments and missions can be retrieved and downloaded from a database called the Master Catalog. This site also includes an overview of life sciences missions and research, and the Digital Image Library - a searchable database of images from life sciences missions and experiments. A set of links to other sources of space life sciences information is also available under Related Resources.

 

 

 

• NOAA Photo Library
  Weather and space images, images of the Earth's shores and coastal seas, and marine species images ranging from great whales to the most minute plankton. Search by term or browse by categories including the National Weather Service, fisheries, coral kingdom, and more.

 

Civil Engineering

 

• Built in America
  The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) from the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress, and part of American Memory

 

Agriculture, Biological, and Environmental Sciences

Climate & Soil Science

 

• ForestEthics Image Gallery: http://www.forestethics.org/gallery.php?id=19

 

 

 

• Global Litter Invertebrate Decomposition Experiment Image Gallery

 

 

 

• National Geographic Patterns in Nature - Water

 

 

 

• National Geographic Photo Gallery - Climate
  Climate related photos from around the globe.

 

 

 

• New York Science Teacher Image Gallery

 

 

 

• NOAA Photo Library
  Weather and space images, images of the Earth's shores and coastal seas, and marine species images ranging from great whales to the most minute plankton. Search by term or browse by categories including the National Weather Service, fisheries, coral kingdom, and more.

 

 

 

• NOAA's Weather and Climate Toolkit

 

 

 

• Soil Crust Image Gallery

 

 

 

• United States Global Change Research Program

 

 

 

• USGS Multimedia Gallery
  The USGS Multimedia Gallery contains photos, descriptions, and additional information of USGS science..

 

 

 

• USGS Water Science Picture Gallery

 

 

 

• water-technology Municipal wastewater treatment gallery

 

 

 

• Windows to the Universe: Climate and Global Change Imges and Multimedia Gallery

 

Biology

 

• Access Excellence @ the National Health Museum: Graphics Gallery
  "From Gene to Function --Building Blocks: Structure and Function --Chromosomes and Cell Division --Cell Processes"

 

 

 

• ARKive: Images of Life on Earth
  Films and photos of the world's endangered species.

 

 

 

• ASM Mammal Image Library
  A non-profit educational service of the American Society of Mammalogists. a visual resource at all levels of instruction.

 

 

 

• Atlas of Nucleic Acid Containing Structures  
  DIGITAL IMAGES. Provides summary information and images for each structure in the Nucleic Acid Database (also listed in these guides). These images provide many looks at the varied structures of nucleic acids.

 

 

 

• BIODIC: The Ultrastructures
  "Electron micrographs in the field of Biology. Images are free to use as teaching material or resources. --Anatomy --Animal Biology --Cell Biology --Plant Biology --Monera-prokaryots --Fungi --Protists"

 

 

 

• BioDiTRL
  Bio-Database Teaching Resource Library

 

 

 

• NIGMS Cellular Imaging
  From the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Provides visualization at the cellular and subcellular level to understand cell structure and function and how they are dynamically regulated.

 

 

 

• The Micropolitan Museum
  The Micropolitan Museum finally exhibits captured images of micro-organisms.

 

 

 

• Science.gov Image Search
  "Images from the following organizations: --National Biologcial Information Infrastructure (NBII) --Library of Images from the Environment (LIFE) --National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) Image eXchange (NIX) --National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Photo Library."

 

 

 

• USDA Agriculatural Research Service: Image Gallery [Plants]

 

Anatomy

 

• See also: Medicine (general)

 

 

 

• AnatQuest: Anatomic Images Online
  High resolution cryosectional colour images of human anatomy produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project.

 

 

 

• An@tomy.tv
  The world's most detailed 3D model of human anatomy available online created by Primal Pictures. Includes features such as interactive zoom, rotation, angle, interactive layers, extensive text, MRI, clinical slides and xrays, live action movies, animations, radiology slides, dissection videos and slides, surface anatomy videos and slides. Focuses on muscles, ligaments, nerves, veins, arteries, bones.

 

 

 

• Atlas of Histology
  Includes over 1000 labeled histological features and accompanying functional descriptions. All images are accessible though an alphabetical index and a search engine.

 

 

 

• Atlas of Human Anatomy in Cross Section

 

 

 

• Atlas of Microscopic Anatomy

 

 

 

• BIODIDAC
  Includes over 6,100 diagrams (both color & b/w) photographs, and videos related to biology and histology.

 

 

 

• Digital Anatomist Project
  University of Washington Structural Informatics Group's interactive atlas containing graphical and symbolic representations of human anatomy. Includes 2-D and 3-D images.

 

 

 

• Digital Anatomist Project
  University of Washington Structural Informatics Group's interactive atlas containing graphical and symbolic representations of human anatomy. Includes 2-D and 3-D images.

 

 

 

• Dream Anatomy
  Drawn from the collections of the National Library of Medicine, this site depicts the anatomical imagination from 1500 to the present.

 

 

 

• Gray's Anatomy from Bartleby
  Illustrations from Henry Gray's 1918 work Anatomy of the Human Body

 

 

 

• Human Anatomy Online
  Presented by SUNY Downstate.  Includes Head & Neck Anatomy

 

 

 

• John Martin Rare Book Room Images
  These unique sets of several hundred images from the 5,000 volume John Martin Rare Book Room have been selected from some of the more striking works in the collection and include illustrations relating to anatomy, physiology, surgery, obstetrics, and therapeutics. An effort has been made to avoid duplicating the work of other digitizing projects relating to the history of medicine and to include only those images not already scanned in high resolution.

 

 

 

• The JayDoc HistoWeb
  JayDoc HistoWeb is an online histology atlas. The creators of HistoWeb allow use of the content for non-profit, educational purposes.

 

Ecology

 

• ARKive  
  DIGITAL MEDIA (IMAGES, VIDEOS). Unique collection of thousands of wildlife videos, images, and fact-files, with a special focus on the world's threatened species.

 

 

 

• BIODIDAC
  Includes over 6,100 diagrams (both color & b/w) photographs, and videos related to biology and histology.

 

 

 

• NASA Images
  A new online archive of hundreds of thousands of NASA images.

 

Animal Science

 

• Animal Science Image Gallery  
  The Animal Science Image Gallery is a collaborative project of the USDA National Agricultural Library and the American Society of Animal Science.

 

 

 

• Dairy Farming Today - Dairy Interactive
  Videos, pictures, e-postcards, and podcasts from the American Dairy Association.

 

Ornithology (Birds)

 

• Audubon's Birds of America - University of Pittsburgh

 

 

 

• Birds of North America Online
  Provides detailed scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada. A project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, BNA is a living resource with account contents updated frequently. Includes image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and recordings bird songs and calls.

 

 

 

• Owl Pages Images Gallery

 

 

 

• Visual Resources for Ornithology, Which is the Study of Birds
  This is the world-wide bird image collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Over 150,000 images are present. Great images that are under copyright protection.

 

Primatology

 

• Primate Info. Net: Primate Images
  Natural history images of nonhuman primates from the National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Fisheries & Aquatic Zoology

 

• Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
  Images related to freshwater and marine topics, including images of fish, shellfish, and marine mammals, pictures of fish hatcheries and dams and vessels, materials related to polar exploration, regional and traditional fisheries, and limnological (freshwater) subjects. From the University of Washington Library's Digital Collections.

 

 

 

• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Digital Library
  Collection of over 6,000 nature and wildlife photos provided by the U.s. Fish & Wildlife Service. Includes birds, plants, habitats, environmental sciences, wildlife refuges, and more.

 

Amphibians

 

• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
  Search images from UofM's amphibian, mammal, and fish collections.

 

Biophysics

 

• An@tomy.tv
  The world's most detailed 3D model of human anatomy available online created by Primal Pictures. Includes features such as interactive zoom, rotation, angle, interactive layers, extensive text, MRI, clinical slides and xrays, live action movies, animations, radiology slides, dissection videos and slides, surface anatomy videos and slides. Focuses on muscles, ligaments, nerves, veins, arteries, bones.

 

 

 

• Springer Images (Images.MD) (UMN access only)
  Images.MD has over 50,000 medical images from more than 90 collections and 2,000 contributors.

 

Reptiles

Agriculture

 

• Animal Science Image Gallery  
  The Animal Science Image Gallery is a collaborative project of the USDA National Agricultural Library and the American Society of Animal Science.

 

 

 

• ARS Image Gallery  
  The Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.

 

 

 

• National Geographic Photo Gallery - Climate
  Climate related photos from around the globe.

 

 

 

• NOAA Photo Library
  Weather and space images, images of the Earth's shores and coastal seas, and marine species images ranging from great whales to the most minute plankton. Search by term or browse by categories including the National Weather Service, fisheries, coral kingdom, and more.

 

 

 

• Photo Gallery
  Photos from the Weed Science Society of America of many common North American weeds, herbs, and plants.

 

 

 

• Plant Diseases and Damage Image Gallery
  An image gallery of various plant disease and damage.

 

 

 

• PlantFacts - Images
  This portion of PlantFacts includes photos of ornamental plants, insects and diseases, turf, and fruits and vegetables.

 

 

 

• Plant Image Gallery
  Plant Image Gallery is an ongoing project of the Noble Foundation which currently includes over 600 species of vascular plants.

 

 

 

• The Twelve Soil Orders
  A collection of information and images to illustrate the distribution, properties, ecological significance, and the use of the twelve soil orders.

 

 

 

• USDA Beltsville Electron Microscopy Unit
  Images from the Electron and Confocal Microscope Unit; using the scanning and transmission electron microscopes, the collection contains images of the surface of biological and physical materials unaltered by preparative procedures.

 

 

 

• USGS Multimedia Gallery
  The USGS Multimedia Gallery contains photos, descriptions, and additional information of USGS science..

 

Entomology

 

• Iowa State Entomology Index
  Incredibly extensive guide to online entomology image sources online.

 

Horticulture

 

• ARS Image Gallery  
  The Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.

 

 

 

• Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection
  Images currently cover Plant Geography, Plant Morphology, Phloem Development, Xylem Development, Floral Ontogeny, Lichens, Economic Botany, Carnivorous Plants, Organography, Pollen, Paleobotany, Plant Defense Mechanisms and Plant Anatomy.

 

 

 

• CalPhotos Plants (University of California Berkeley
  Nearly 100,000 images of plants.

 

 

 

• Hort.net Gallery
  More than 4000 images of more than 2000 plants.

 

 

 

• Plant Image Gallery
  Plant Image Gallery is an ongoing project of the Noble Foundation which currently includes over 600 species of vascular plants.

 

 

 

• Photo Gallery (Weed Science Society of America)
  This photo gallery contains pictures of common North American plants. Some of the plant species listed are not generally considered weeds but may have toxic or poisonous properties, or are otherwise of general interest as wildflowers or herbs.

 

 

 

• Plant Diseases and Damage Image Gallery
  An image gallery of various plant disease and damage.

 

 

 

• PLANTS Database
  The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references. PLANTS is a collaborative effort of the USDA NRCS National Plant Data Team (NPDT), the USDA NRCS Information Technology Center (ITC), The USDA National Information Technology Center (NITC), and many other partners.

 

 

 

• Special Collections Images (National Agricultural Library)
  Digitized selections from a variety of Special Collections' rare books, nursery and seed trade catalogs, and manuscript collections. Each image is a digital reproduction of the original artwork or written text.

 

 

 

• Texas Plant Disease Handbook
  Organized by plant type, the TPDH includes definitions of plant diseases as well as images for some but not all pathologies.

 

 

 

• UW-Madison Botany Department Teaching Collection
  Collection of botany images and movie clips organized to serve the needs of the students and instructors of the introductory course General Botany.

 

 

 

• Vegetable Disease Powerpoint Slide Sets (UW Vegetable Pathology)
  Includes slide sets on Potato, Bean, Cucumber, Carrot, Mint, and Fungicides.

 

Plant Science

 

• AgroAtlas
  "The Russian-English Agricultural Atlas is the world’s most comprehensive source of information on the geographic distribution of plant-based agriculture in Russia and neighboring countries. The Atlas contains 1500 maps that illustrate the distribution of 100 crops, 560 wild crop relatives, 640 diseases, pests and weeds, and 200 environmental parameters. Additionally, the Atlas provides detailed biological descriptions, illustrations, metadata and reference lists. Currently, individual maps can be downloaded and viewed using freely available AgroAtlas GIS Utility software, which can also be downloaded at this site."

 

 

 

• ARS Image Gallery  
  The Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.

 

 

 

• Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection
  Images currently cover Plant Geography, Plant Morphology, Phloem Development, Xylem Development, Floral Ontogeny, Lichens, Economic Botany, Carnivorous Plants, Organography, Pollen, Paleobotany, Plant Defense Mechanisms and Plant Anatomy.

 

 

 

• CalPhotos Plants (University of California Berkeley
  Nearly 100,000 images of plants.

 

 

 

• Curtis's Botanical Magazine [NAL Image Search]
  A project of the National Agricultural Library. Contains over 1,000 original plates of botanical illustrations from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, 1787-1807. Browse botanical illustrations by flower or plant name. Update:[NAL removed Curt's Magazine botanical plates collection, but some of these and other botanical illustrations can still be found on the NAL Rare Book Image Search. link updated 12/13]

 

 

 

• Hort.net Gallery
  More than 4000 images of more than 2000 plants.

 

 

 

• Photo Gallery
  Photos from the Weed Science Society of America of many common North American weeds, herbs, and plants.

 

 

 

• PLANTS Database
  The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references. PLANTS is a collaborative effort of the USDA NRCS National Plant Data Team (NPDT), the USDA NRCS Information Technology Center (ITC), The USDA National Information Technology Center (NITC), and many other partners.

 

 

 

• Plant Diseases and Damage Image Gallery
  An image gallery of various plant disease and damage.

 

 

 

• Plant Image Gallery
  Plant Image Gallery is an ongoing project of the Noble Foundation which currently includes over 600 species of vascular plants.

 

 

 

• Special Collections Images (National Agricultural Library)
  Digitized selections from a variety of Special Collections' rare books, nursery and seed trade catalogs, and manuscript collections. Each image is a digital reproduction of the original artwork or written text.

 

 

 

• The Twelve Soil Orders
  A collection of information and images to illustrate the distribution, properties, ecological significance, and the use of the twelve soil orders.

 

 

 

• UW-Madison Botany Department Teaching Collection
  Collection of botany images and movie clips organized to serve the needs of the students and instructors of the introductory course General Botany.

 

 

 

• Vegetable Disease Powerpoint Slide Sets (UW Vegetable Pathology)
  Includes slide sets on Potato, Bean, Cucumber, Carrot, Mint, and Fungicides.

 

Plant Pathology

 

• AgroAtlas
  "The Russian-English Agricultural Atlas is the world’s most comprehensive source of information on the geographic distribution of plant-based agriculture in Russia and neighboring countries. The Atlas contains 1500 maps that illustrate the distribution of 100 crops, 560 wild crop relatives, 640 diseases, pests and weeds, and 200 environmental parameters. Additionally, the Atlas provides detailed biological descriptions, illustrations, metadata and reference lists. Currently, individual maps can be downloaded and viewed using freely available AgroAtlas GIS Utility software, which can also be downloaded at this site."

 

 

 

• APS Press : Image Resources
  The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is the premier society dedicated to high quality, innovative plant pathology research. Saint Paul publisher. Publishes the print and CD-Rom images used in the Plant Path Library.

 

 

 

• Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection
  Images currently cover Plant Geography, Plant Morphology, Phloem Development, Xylem Development, Floral Ontogeny, Lichens, Economic Botany, Carnivorous Plants, Organography, Pollen, Paleobotany, Plant Defense Mechanisms and Plant Anatomy.

 

 

 

• CalPhotos : Fungi (UC Berkeley)
  5,731 images of fungi.

 

 

 

• Forestry Images : Diseases
  Browse images by photographers, organization, location.

 

 

 

• Fungi Images on the Net
  Direct links to many [+3500] of the best Fungi Photo on the web

 

 

 

• IPM Images : Crops
  Browse images by commodity, taxonomy, damage types, photographers, organization, location.

 

 

 

• Minnesota Crop Diseases
  From U of M Extension: soybean and corn diseases.

 

 

 

• Mycology.net : Photographs of Fungi and Lichens
  A portal to various websites with photos of fungi.

 

 

 

• MykoWeb
  "MykoWeb is a site rich in mushroom photography. There about 6000 fungal photographs to view, with over 4000 of these illustrating the species at The Fungi of California. Hundreds of the best photographs are available for viewing in large size on the Mushroom Photography pages."

 

 

 

• Photo Gallery
  Photos from the Weed Science Society of America of many common North American weeds, herbs, and plants.

 

 

 

• PLANTS Database
  The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references. PLANTS is a collaborative effort of the USDA NRCS National Plant Data Team (NPDT), the USDA NRCS Information Technology Center (ITC), The USDA National Information Technology Center (NITC), and many other partners.

 

 

 

• Plant Diseases and Damage Image Gallery
  An image gallery of various plant disease and damage.

 

 

 

• Plant & Pest Digital Library
  "The Digital Library enhances the diagnostic services of the Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University by providing images of common plant and pest problems."

 

 

 

• Texas Plant Disease Handbook
  Organized by plant type, the TPDH includes definitions of plant diseases as well as images for some but not all pathologies.

 

 

 

• University of Georgia Plant Disease Library
  Includes photos and descriptions of plant diseases in the state of Georgia.

 

 

 

• USDA Beltsville Electron Microscopy Unit - Plant Feeding Mites
  Images from the Electron and Confocal Microscope Unit; using the scanning and transmission electron microscopes, the collection contains images of the surface of biological and physical materials unaltered by preparative procedures.

 

 

 

• Vegetable Disease Powerpoint Slide Sets (UW Vegetable Pathology)
  Includes slide sets on Potato, Bean, Cucumber, Carrot, Mint, and Fungicides.

 

 

 

• Virtual Nematode
  "The Virtual Nematode uses 3-D animations and virtual reality environments as visual teaching aids for several concepts in plant parasitic nematology. The end product is intended to supplement a lecture. Visualization may enhance a viewer's perception and retention of the information presented. "

 

Fisheries & Aquatic Zoology

 

• Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
  Images related to freshwater and marine topics, including images of fish, shellfish, and marine mammals, pictures of fish hatcheries and dams and vessels, materials related to polar exploration, regional and traditional fisheries, and limnological (freshwater) subjects. From the University of Washington Library's Digital Collections.

 

 

 

• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Digital Library
  Collection of over 6,000 nature and wildlife photos provided by the U.s. Fish & Wildlife Service. Includes birds, plants, habitats, environmental sciences, wildlife refuges, and more.

 

Forestry

 

• Fritz-Metcalf Photograph Collection (UC Berkeley Biosciences & Natural Resources Library)
  The Fritz-Metcalf Photograph Collection is a group of about 9000 photographs relating primarily to forestry, conservation, and the lumber industry in California and the United States. Subjects include logging operations, logging equipment, reforestation, forest research, fire protection, lumber mills, and the activities of the University of California's School of Forestry. The photographs were taken from 1906 to 1984 by Emanuel Fritz, Woodbridge Metcalf and others.

 

 

 

• Forestry Images
  Health, natural resources, and silviculture Images including forest pests, trees and stand types, silvicultural practices, invasive organisms, forest plants, wildlife, and other scenes. Joint project of the Bugwood Network and the USDA Forest Service, and the University of Georgia.

 

Professional Programs

Architecture

 

• 360cities
  Panoramic views of sites and architecture around the world. Join to upload your panoramas.

 

 

 

• American Terra Cotta Photographs
  The collection contains shop drawings in ink on linen, paper and prints from the American, Indianapolis, Midland, and Winkle Terra Cotta Companies plus hundreds of photographs (prints and negatives), office indexes, order books, and advertising brochures.

 

 

 

• Amiens Cathedral, Amiens, France
  Complete photographic documentation of French Gothic Cathedral

 

 

 

• Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs (Cornell)
  Approximately 13,000 nineteenth and early twentieth-century photographs of architecture, decorative arts and sculpture.

 

 

 

• Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
  Photographs from the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, American Memory, Library of Congress (The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects).

 

 

 

• Architecture and Landscape Design Images (Smithsonian Galaxy of Images)
  The Smithsonian Galaxy of Images contains 1.5 images across disciplines. This grouping represents the digital collections of Architecture and Landscape Architecture specifically, many of which come from the SI Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Caldwell Lighting Archive: http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Caldwell/search.cfm for images related to lighting design.

 

 

 

• Architecture in the Classical Tradition (Queens University, Canada) - Image Search
  Wealth of images from Pierre du Prey, Professor & Director of the Architecture in the Classical Tradition project, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, arranged by chronological, thematic, and theoretical approaches.

 

 

 

• ArchNet Islamic Architecture
  International online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, conservationists, and scholars, with a focus on Muslim cultures and civilizations. Images of historic and contemporary Islamic architecture.

 

 

 

• arcspace.com
  Architecture magazine featuring contemporary architecture projects, architects, and design. Includes image gallery with multiple site views and large download sizes.

 

 

 

• arounder
  Panoramic views of important sites in European and American cities. Includes historical cathedrals and works of art, museums featuring famous artists, local cafes and stores, mountain-top views, parks and gardens.

 

 

 

• Art Images for College Teaching
  Art and architecture images arranged by time period to parallel art history textbook organization.

 

 

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

 

 

 

• Asian Historical Architecture: a photographic survey
  Contains over 9000 photos from 568 sites in eighteen countries, surveying Asia's architectural heritage.

 

 

 

• Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)
  Part of the American Memory Project, this collection contains more than 350,000 measured drawings, photographs, and written histories in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories.

 

 

 

• Canadian Architectural Archives

 

 

 

• Catena Digital Archive of Historic Gardens & Landscapes
  Archive of digital images with accompanying educational materials, built around the villa, an important landscape type in garden history. Sponsored by the Bard Graduate Center through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

 

 

 

• Cathedral of Notre Dame (Chartres Cathedral), Chartres, France
  Over 3000 images of the cathedral architecture, sculpture, and stained glass.

 

 

 

• Chicago Public Library Digital Collections
  Highlights include construction views of Millennium Park, detailed photographs of Civil War artifacts, photographs of Harold Washington, documents from the Chicago Renaissance and pictures of Chicago neighborhoods.

 

 

 

• Cities and Buildings Database
  Buildings and cities from throughout history and throughout the world. A collection begun by UW professor Meredith L. Clausen for use in the classroom, student study, or individual research purposes.

 

 

 

• Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives
  The Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives (www.columbusarchives.org) was created to collect, conserve, preserve, and promote the use of records that document the architecture, engineering, and arts associated with the built environment of Columbus, Indiana and Bartholomew County. The archives’ collection includes materials on both Historical and Modernist projects, including many of the 60 plus designs by world famous architects of the last half century that are located in Bartholomew County.

 

 

 

• Digital Archive of American Architecture
  Slides from the collection of Jeffery Howe, Boston College. Arranged by century, building type, style, architect. Enlargeable thumbnails. Substantial.

 

 

 

• Digital Imaging Project
  "Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-Modern." A project by Mary Ann Sullivan to put her slide collection on the web.

 

 

 

• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Image Collections
  The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. Individuals can access a trove of tens of thousands of images across these institutions through DPLA's search interface (by selecting the "images" filter on results after performing a keyword search). Alternatively, consider using the OpenPics app. (http://dp.la/apps/6) to find images from the DPLA (and other repositories).

 

 

 

• Emporis

 

 

 

• Getty Center, Los Angeles, California
  Contains photographs of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, divided into photographs taken pre-opening in 1997 and post-opening in 2000.

 

 

 

• Great Buildings Collection
  Pictures, details, resources, and other information about well-designed buildings from around the world.

 

 

 

• Grove's Dictionary of Art (UMN access only)

 

 

 

• Images of Las Vegas

 

 

 

• Landscape Architecture Image Resource (LAIR)
  "The LAIR Website has been designed to foster active, collaborative learning and encourage community building across a variety of campuses serving landscape architecture education."

 

 

 

• MEDart Images of Medieval Art & Architecture
  Extensive documentation of Chartres Cathedral and the Benedictine Abbey Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine at Vezelay, including photographs, drawings, plans, and historical information.

 

 

 

• National Register of Historic Places on Flickr
  Photos U.S. historic sites on the National Register of Historic Places, taken by staff photographers. Organized into sets by location and type of building.

 

 

 

• New York Public Library Image Collections, Cities and Buildings

 

 

 

• Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD)
  Architecture in Washington, Oregon, and California. Images, building and architect information, and bibliography.

 

 

 

• Pattern in Islamic Art
  "Offers more than 4000 free downloadable images of such patterns as used in the decoration of Islamic architecture. The bulk of these images are drawnfrom David Wade's own photo-archive, itself the fruit of his visits to various Islamic and formerly Islamic regions over a period of some thirty years. In addition to his photo-archive the site offers other related material such as drawings, diagrams and analyses, background notes, and previouslypublished material."

 

 

 

• Perseus Building Catalog
  Images and short text on selected Greek and Roman buildings.

 

 

 

• Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Digital Collection
  "The University of Chicago's Special Collections Research Center holds the largest Speculum collection. This group of 994 prints (engravings, etchings, and a few woodcuts) was brought together by a nineteenth-century collector; it is organized around a core of prints published by Lafreri but also includes many other related prints. This site provides scholars, students, and art lovers with access to this collection at a distance -- much as prints themselves originally afforded a view of Rome from afar."

 

 

 

• SPIRO (Architecture Slide Library, UC Berkeley)
  SPIRO is the visual online public access catalog to the 35mm slide collection of the Architecture Visual Resources Library (AVRL) at the University of California at Berkeley. The collection numbers over 250,000 slides and 20,000 photographs. Web images display in thumbnail only. Copyright use without permission for student work, educational purposes, non-published works (with attribution). All other use requires permission.

 

 

 

• Structurae
  International collection of architecture and engineering images and information, including historic and contemporary structures. Focus on works of interest for their structural engineering.

 

 

 

• Top Ten New York Architecture
  Contemporary and historic images of significant buildings in New York. Inclues photography, postcards, and posters. Organized by style, building function, and neighborhood.

 

 

 

• University of Washington Cities and Buildings Database
  The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web. Researchers can now search for buildings by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction, as well as other fields.

 

 

 

• VADS. The online resource for visual arts.
  Visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images from institutional sources contributed for use in learning, teaching and research. Includes art, design, architecture, decorative art, fashion. UK-based.

 

 

 

• Visual collections: images of art, history and culture: Architecture
  Provides access to digital image collections from Museums, Universities and private collections throughout the world - by Cartography Associates (David Rumsey)

 

 

 

• Web Gallery of Art - a virtual museum of over 20,000 reproductions
  "The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 20,300 reproductions. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available. Guided tours, period music, downloadable catalogue, free postcard and other services are provided. The Web Gallery of Art is intended to be a free resource of art history primarily for students and teachers. It is a private initiative not related to any museums or art institutions, and not supported financially by any state or corporate sponsors. However, we do our utmost, using authentic literature and advice from professionals, to ensure the quality and authenticity of the content."

 

 

 

• William Gray Purcell Job Image Database
  The Prairie School tradition is magnificently represented by the William Gray Purcell Papers (1814-1965). Purcell (1880-1965) and George Grant Elmslie's (1871-1952) highly successful partnership produced some of the finest Prairie School buildings in America. Present are drawings and other documents for almost every commission, plus those designed by both men before and after the period of their partnership.

 

 

 

• WorldImages - California State University IMAGE Project
  The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 65,000 images.

 

Landscape Architecture

 

• American Environmental Photographs 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago Library

 

 

 

• American Landscape and Architectural Design 1850-1920 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
  Large collection of lantern slides of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. Source materials for this collection come from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Included is the work of Harvard faculty Frederick Law Olmsted, Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray, as well as that of other landscape architects throughout the country. The collection offers views of cities, buildings, parks, and gardens, including Boston's Park System.

 

 

 

• Early Landscape Photography of the American West
  Over 200 large albumen prints from the 1860s and 1870s of American Western landscape. The locations and photographers include views of Yosemite Valley by Carleton E. Watkins and Charles L. Weed, the route of the Union Pacific Railroad through the Rocky Mountains by A.J. Russell, and others.

 

 

 

• Environmental Design Archives (UC Berkeley)
  The Environmental Design Archives holds nearly 100 collections documenting the built and landscaped environment. These records span a century, 1890-1990, and contain primary source materials such as correspondence, reports, specifications, drawings, photographs, and artifacts.

 

 

 

• Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection (Art Institute of Chicago)
  Consisting of approximately 11,000 images that document the architecture, landscape and urban planning of sites across the United States - with a particular emphasis on Chicago and its suburbs - and, to a lesser extent, internationally, The Historic Architecture and Landscape Image collection, or HALIC, contains mounted photographic prints, lantern slides (both black and white and hand-colored), and postcards dating from the 1860s to the 1970s.

 

 

 

• Landscape Architecture Image Resource (LAIR)
  "The LAIR Website has been designed to foster active, collaborative learning and encourage community building across a variety of campuses serving landscape architecture education."

 

 

 

• Landscape Plants: Images, Identification, and Information
  From Oregon State University, this site provides images and information on over 900 landscape plants.

 

 

 

• Project for Public Spaces - Placemaking for Communities
  This site contains images and descriptions of parks, markets, downtown areas, civic centers and more. It contains a database of images and articles and blogs about public space design and utilization.

 

 

 

• The Urban Landscape - Digital Image Access Project at Duke University
  From Duke University, this site contains a database of images pertaining to the theme "The Urban Landscape," from fourteen different collections.

 

Clothing

 

• See Also Costume Design

 

 

 

• AP Images
  AP Images is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery, with a 50 million-image print and negative archive. As an essential source of photographs and graphics for professional image buyers, AP Images strives to meet the needs of today's global customer through superior image quality, selection and service.

 

 

 

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.

 

 

 

• Fashion: Past & Present
  A listing of dozens of online resources that cover the entire span of the history of fashion. The sources are also listed by century. Children's, men's, ethnic & folk fashions as well as military arms and armor and all types of cosmetics and accessories are also covered.

 

 

 

• Fashion Plate Collection: University of Washington Digital Collections (historical)
  This collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the times: La Belle assemblee, Le Bon ton, Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des dames et des modes, Godey's lady's book and magazine and others.

 

 

 

• Index of American Design
  An index of over 18,000 watercolor renderings of American decorative art objects. Search the collection or in the selected online tours for “costume” or “textiles”. A brief description of each item is also provided.

 

 

 

• Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Gallery
  Presented here are 350 of the more than 100,000 objects in the museum’s holdings of historic and contemporary fashion and textiles.

 

 

 

• WWD - Women's Wear Daily

 

Journalism

 

• American Memory Images
  Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

 

 

 

• AP Images
  AP Images is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery, with a 50 million-image print and negative archive. As an essential source of photographs and graphics for professional image buyers, AP Images strives to meet the needs of today's global customer through superior image quality, selection and service.

 

 

 

• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Image Collections
  The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. Individuals can access a trove of tens of thousands of images across these institutions through DPLA's search interface (by selecting the "images" filter on results after performing a keyword search). Alternatively, consider using the OpenPics app. (http://dp.la/apps/6) to find images from the DPLA (and other repositories).

 

 

 

• Flickr Commons
  Search and use hundreds of images with "no known copyright restrictions." A joint venture of Flickr and the Library of Congress, Flickr Commons was designed to increase access to publicly-held photography collections.

 

 

 

• Illustrated Newspaper Supplements (Flickr Collection)
  Illustrated newspapers (starting 1909) from the Library of Congress's Historical Newspapers image collection, displayed on Flickr. Contains many public domain images.

 

 

 

• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Catalog Online
  View a digital collection of photographs and prints owned by the Library of Congress, dating back to the Civil War. Also includes posters, comics, daguerreotypes, and blueprints.

 

 

 

• Wikimedia Commons
  Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content including images, sound and video clips.

 

 

 

• World Digital Library
  Created by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, the World Digital Library provides free online access to world cultural treasures. Includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings from a variety of countries.

 

 

Marketing

• Ad*Access
  Advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Digital collection at Duke University. 
  
  AdFlip
  Archive of classic print advertisements from 1940 to 2001. Search by publication, advertisement category, or year. 
  
  Ads: Greenwashing Index.  (promoted by EnviroMedia Social Marketing and University of Oregon) 
  
  Ads of the World
  Contemporary ads from around the world, including award winners. 
  
  adverlicious
  Searchable collection of online ads.

The Advertising Archives: Historical & Current Print Ads
Historical print and TV advertisements, magazine covers, cinema posters, comics, postcards, cigarette cards, and more. Sign in for access to larger images.

Advertolog
Contemporary print and TV ads, browsable by categories, including cars, savoury foods, and men's magazines.

AdViews
AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s from Duke University.

AIGA Design Archives
Over 16,000 images of past winners of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) annual competitions in the areas of Book, Brand and Corporate Identity, Promotional, Information, Package and Typographical design from 1950's to the present.

AP Images
AP Images is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery, with a 50 million-image print and negative archive. As an essential source of photographs and graphics for professional image buyers, AP Images strives to meet the needs of today's global customer through superior image quality, selection and service. 

The American Package Museum
Historical American packaging and print advertising from the early 20th century. Browse by product name. Some 3-D images available.

Coloribus
Over two million contemporary ads from around the world in all mediums, including print, online, viral, television, and outdoor advertising.

Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918
This collection from the University of washington Libraries consists of over 450 print advertisements published in local magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets from 1867 to 1918.

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
An important, collaborative effort between the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and Duke University's Digital Scriptorium provides images of over 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920. The site is designed to chronicle the rise of consumer culture in America in the late nineteenth century as well as the development of a professionalized advertising industry.

Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements (American Memory, Library of Congress)

Gender Ads
Advertising images focusing on gender content and analysis. Browse by female and male advertisements, body parts, gender roles, and more.

GLAAD Advertising Media Program
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) archive of current and historical advertising with diverse gender content. Image collection and analysis.

Medicine and Madison Avenue
Over 600 historical and health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines from 1910-1959; categories include cigarettes, vitamins and tonics, diet, and more From Duke University Libraries digital collections.

Sears Archive, 1886-present (search Homes and Products)

Visual Information Access, search VIA for l9th-century trade cards and advertisements as subject (Harvard University)

 
Communication Studies 

AP Images
AP Images is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery, with a 50 million-image print and negative archive. As an essential source of photographs and graphics for professional image buyers, AP Images strives to meet the needs of today's global customer through superior image quality, selection and service. 

Artstor
Artstor's public collections offer approximately 300,000 cross-disciplinary images and descriptive information covering art, architecture,  archeology and more. Accompanying software tools support pedagogical and research uses including viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations. 

Life, Your World in Pictures
Searchable collection of photos from LIFE and Getty Images, the two most recognized names in photography.

Time and Life Pictures
Time-Life Pictures. Images by well-known photojournalists "documenting past and present political and cultural events, as well as celebrities and the American experience." Also includes commercial and archival footage.

Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content including images, sound and video clips.

Local & Regional

• Minnesota Historical Society's Visual Resources Database
  Information about photographs, artwork, posters, and fine art photographs, as well as selected images from the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society are included in this database. These historical collections visually represent Minnesotans, their lives, landscapes, leisure and occupations from the pre-territorial period to the present. 
  
  Minnesota Reflections
  Collection of more than 6,000 digital images of Minnesota prior to 1908, representing the first 50 years of statehood, contributed by about 60 libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies from all corners of the state.  
  
  UMedia Archive (UMN)
  Resources provided by the University of Minnesota. 
  
  Health (BioMedical) Sciences
  
  Medicine (general)
• American Society of Hematology Image Bank
  The American Society of Hematology (ASH) Image Bank is intended to serve as a comprehensive reference and teaching tool that is widely accessible to physicians and hematology students around the world.

Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Over 1,000 endoscopic images. Categories include esophagus, stomach, colon, and more. 

Atlas of Histology
Includes over 1000 labeled histological features and accompanying functional descriptions. Images are accessible though an alphabetical index and a search engine. 

Atlas of Ophthalmology

Brain Biodiversity Bank Atlases
Michigan State University online atlases of the brains of humans, sheep, dolphins, and more. Search for brain images by animal category. 

Center for Disease Control's Public Health Image Library
Photos, illustrations, audio/visual, and animation files. Includes titles, descriptions, and subject identifiers. 

Digital Atlas of Ophthalmology 

Genetics and Biotechnology Graphics Gallery of the National Health Museum
Graphics Gallery is a series of labeled diagrams with explanations representing the important processes of biotechnology. Each diagram is followed by a summary of information, providing a context for the process illustrated. 

Genome Image Gallery
Genome Sciences images from the Department of Energy Human Genome Project. Search by topic or browse by categories including Human Chromosome Gallery, Basic Genomics, and more. 

Harvard's Whole Brain Atlas
Atlas of the human brain from Harvard Medicine. Browse for a variety of images by normal brain or brain disease type. 

HEAL Images
Digital repository that allows medical educators to discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources. 
 

• Images from the History of Medicine
  Access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM). Includes portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine from the 15th to the 21st century. 
  
  Medscape Medical
  Over 10,000 medical images. Search for images by limiting your "content type" to "images." 
  
  Open-i Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine
  National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored project providing information retrieval services for biomedical articles from full text collections such as PubMed Central. Indexes both the text and images in the articles. Initial launch was 600,000 images, with plans to scale in the millions.
  
  Springer Images
  Growing collection of scientific images spanning the scientific, technical and medical fields. Includes high-quality clinical images from images.MD. Over 50,000 images are freely available to the public. 
  
  The JayDoc HistoWeb 
  Online histology atlas. The creators allow use of the content for non-profit, educational purposes.
  
  Visuals Online (National Cancer Institute)
  Images from the collections of the Office of Communications and Education and Office of Media Relations, National Cancer Institute. 
  
  Wellcome Images
  Over 40,000 current and historical medical images. Topics include medical and social history, contemporary healthcare and biomedical science.
  
  History of Medicine
   
• American Social Hygiene Posters
  University of Minnesota collection of social hygiene posters from 1910-1970. Search by year, topic, or browse by categories including family health, mental health, women, and more. 
  
  Department of Pathology - Digital Slidebox
  University of Western Ontario virtual slidebox of images illustrating pathological processes.
  
  Gray's Anatomy from Bartleby
  Illustrations from Henry Gray's 1918 work Anatomy of the Human Body
  
  Historical images in medicine - Duke Medical Center Library's Historical Images in Medicine
  
  Images from the History of Medicine
  Access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM). Includes portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine from the 15th to 21st century. 
  
  Medicine and Madison Avenue
  Over 600 historical and health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines from 1910-1959. Categories include cigarettes, vitamins and tonics, diet, and more. From Duke University Libraries. 
  
  National Cancer Institute Visuals Online
  NCI Visuals Online contains images from the collections of the Office of Communications and Education, National Cancer Institute. 
  
  National Eye Institute Photos, Images, and Video
  The National Eye Institute's (NEI) repository for images, photos, and videos. Search by condition, anatomy, diagnostics, age group, and more. 
  
  Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration 
  Images from the 13th through the early 20th century in the fields of astronomy, chemistry, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics, as represented in manuscript illuminations, engravings, lithographs, and photographs from the New York Public Library. 
  
  Yale Cushing/Whitney Medical Digital Library
  Images from the Pathology Teaching Collection, historical hospital postcards, portrait engravings, and the George E. Palade slide collection.
  
  Cardiology 
   
• Alan E Lindsay ECG Learning Center in Cyberspace
  The ECG Learning Center also includes diagrams useful in explaining ECG abnormalities. Use of ECG Learning Center images is governed by a Creative Commons Copyright which allows rather liberal non-profit use. 
  
  ECG Library
  The ECG Library includes approximately 50 ECGs, a few diagrams useful in explaining ECG abnormalities, and a brief history of electrocardiography. Materials available through the site may be used for non-commercial purposes if their source is acknowledged.
  
  Dentistry
   
• Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
  Collection of stereoscopic anatomy images from the Lane Library at Stanford. 
  
  Biology Image Library
  Images, movies, illustrations and animations across biology and biomedicine. Downloadable for non-commercial purposes, such as for use in lectures or seminars. Some dental images - type in 'dental, teeth, oral'
  
  Dental Anatomy @ Dental Wisdom
  
  HON Media Gallery
  Searchable repository of over 6,800 images and videos which meet HON standards provided by this non-govermental agency. Search under: Dental, Oral, Tooth/Teeth 
  
  Illustrata - Natural Sciences
  Tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature. View along with the caption, author and source information and additional index terms that can be used for further searching. A link back to the parent record provides a summary view of all the objects associated with that paper. 
  
  MedlinePlus
  Extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 590 diseases and conditions. Also contains lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. 
  
  Springer Images (Images.MD) (UMN access only)
  Images.MD has over 50,000 medical images from more than 90 collections and 2,000 contributors.
  
  TRIP Database
  Evidence Based Healthcare resources. Each abstract denotes the source and description of information along with complete citations. 
  
  An@tomy.tv
  Detailed 3D model of human anatomy created by Primal Pictures. Features include interactive zoom, rotation, angle, interactive layers, extensive text, MRI, clinical slides and xrays, live action movies, animations, radiology slides, surface anatomy and dissection videos and slides. Focuses on muscles, ligaments, nerves, veins, arteries, bones.
  
  Dermatology 
   
• Atlas of Dermatology
  
  DermAtlas: Dermatology Image Atlas
  Over 10,000 dermatology images. Search by term or browse by categories, diagnoses or body sites. 
  
  Dermatology Image Bank
  Images of many different dermatologic disorders. Multimedia items may be downloaded for educational purposes. Maintained by the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah Health Sciences Center. 
  
  DermIS
  
  Embryology 
   
• Embryology Images: Normal and Abnormal Mammalian
  Tutorial that uses scanning electron micrographs (SEMs) to teach mammalian embryology. The 3-D like quality of the micrographs coupled with selected line drawings and minimal text allow relatively easy understanding of the complex morphological changes that occur in utero. 
  
  Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo
  Image collection intended to serve students, researchers, clinicians, and the general public interested in studying and teaching human development. A three-dimensional image reference of the human embryo based on magnetic resonance imaging. Funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
  
  Visible Embryo
  Detailed accounts of stages of fetal development, images, embryology links. Created with National Institute of Health support. 
  
  Gynaecology
• An@tomy.tv
  The world's most detailed 3D model of human anatomy available online created by Primal Pictures. Includes features such as interactive zoom, rotation, angle, interactive layers, extensive text, MRI, clinical slides and xrays, live action movies, animations, radiology slides, dissection videos and slides, surface anatomy videos and slides. Focuses on muscles, ligaments, nerves, veins, arteries, bones.
  
  Atlas of Endometriosis
  REGISTRATION REQUIRED Global Library of Women's Medicine 

Atlas of High Definition Endoscopy and Gynecology
REGISTRATION REQUIRED Global Library of Women's Medicine

Atlas of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
REGISTRATION REQUIRED Global Library of Women's Medicine 

Atlas of Vulvar Disease
Brookside Associates 

Composite Atlases
REGISTRATION REQUIRED Global Library of Women's Medicine Includes pathology, anatomy, MRI, CT and X-Ray images. 

HEAL
HEAL is a digital repository that allows medical educators to discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources. 

Placental Pathology Index
University of Utah

WebPath: Female Genital Tract Pathology
University of Utah. Sries of images demonstrating gross and microscopic pathologic findings for a variety of disease processes. A short description accompanies each image.

Kinesiology

 

• ASCB Cell Image and Video Library

 

 

 

• Exercise Physiology Image Digital Image Archive
  Sampling of anatomical images related to exercise physiology such as oxygen consumption, cardiovascular function and blood pressure.

 

 

 

• Google Body Browser
  Load WebGL and the beta version of Google Chrome to use this. View the human body as you would google earth!

 

 

 

• HEAL Images
  HEAL is a digital repository that allows medical educators to discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources.

 

 

 

• NIH Image Bank

 

 

 

• Wellcome Images
  Over 40,000 current and historical medical images; topics include medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science.

 

 

 

• Wikimedia Commons
  Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content including images, sound and video clips.

 

Pathology

 

• Department of Pathology - Digital Slidebox
  University of Western Ontario virtual slidebox of images illustrating pathological processes.

 

 

 

• Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
  The WebPath® computer-aided instructional resource at this website contains over 2000 images with text that illustrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings along with radiologic imaging associated with human disease conditions. For self-assessment and study there are over 2000 examination items. There are more than 20 tutorials in specific subject areas.

 

 

 

• PEIR Digital Library
  The University of Alabama at Birmingham allows some non-profit, educational use of the images included in this searchable database.

 

 

 

• Radiologic Anatomy Browser
  Radiologic image browser and a glossary with image links produced by the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine The Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD

 

 

 

• Urbana Atlas of Pathology
  Developed by University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, this resources provides an overview of a number of pathologies including cardiovascular, endocrine, pulmonary, and renal.

 

Surgical Science

 

• Congress of Neurological Surgeons
  Image database, video theatre and podcasts.

 

 

 

• John Martin Rare Book Room Images
  These unique sets of several hundred images from the 5,000 volume John Martin Rare Book Room have been selected from some of the more striking works in the collection and include illustrations relating to anatomy, physiology, surgery, obstetrics, and therapeutics. An effort has been made to avoid duplicating the work of other digitizing projects relating to the history of medicine and to include only those images not already scanned in high resolution.

 

 

 

• Scientific Images from PubMed and (NCBI) National Center for Biotechnology Information
  Scientific Images from PubMed and (NCBI) National Center for Biotechnology Information. The Images database will allow you to search millions of scientific images from NCBI full text resources; the database initially includes images from PubMed Central

 

Urology

 

• Distal urinary tract : Ureters, bladder & urethra (Histology study guide)
  David King, Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale

 

 

 

• Instant anatomy : Urinary tract
  Robert Whitaker, Cambridge University, United Kingdom 
  
  Male genital pathology index
  Edward C. Klatt, WebPath, University of Utah 
  
  Male reproductive system 
  RC Wagner, FE Hossler, University of Delaware, Newark 
  
  Urinary system & kidneys
  Healthopedia.com / Patient marketing group, Inc
  
  Urology 
  Dermatlas, Johns Hopkins University 
  
  Visual survey of urologic pathology
  Dharam M. Ramnani, Richmond, Virginia

Veterinary Science

• Animal Science Image Gallery  
  The Animal Science Image Gallery is a collaborative project of the USDA National Agricultural Library and the American Society of Animal Science. 
  
  Case Studies In Small Animal Cardiovascular Medicine 
  
  Gross Anatomy: Carnivore Dissection (UMN) 
  
  Image database at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University  
  
  Interactive drawings for veterinary anatomists 
  Provides interactive drawings for cats, cattle, dogs, goats, horses, pigs, and sheep. Click on the drawings to see the names of structures. 
  
  The Mouse Brain Library
  Part of the Informatics Center for Mouse Neurogenetics, a Human Brain Project/Neuroinformatics program funded jointly by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Science Foundation. 
  
  Veterinary clinical parasitology images   
  
  Virtual Cat Dissection
  From Penn State. Real images document dissection of a cat, showing external anatomy to the nervous system.

 

Copyright Considerations: Use of images may require permissions from the rights holder. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain these rights. For further information on image copyright considerations as well as citing images in works, we recommend the University of Washington Image Citation and Copyright page.

Acknowledgements: Many of these resources were initially culled from the LibGuides Community as part of a project to identify exemplar image collections, with further refinement by local subject liaison librarians. While by no means comprehensive, here are some of the external image guides that inspired our project. We are incredibly grateful for the contributions of our colleagues and the Libguides Community, as multimedia resources are increasingly becoming an invaluable part of scholarship! If you contributed to the curation/description of these resources and would like to be added to our bibliography, please contact Scott Spicer, and we will add your name, institution, and LibGuide URL to this list. 

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